December 2012 Entries

this.Log– Source, NuGet Package & Performance

Recently I mentioned this.Log. Given the amount of folks that were interested in this.Log, I decided to pull this source out and make a NuGet package (well, several packages). Source The source is now located at https://github.com/ferventc... Please feel free to send pull requests (with tests of course). When you clone it, if you open visual studio prior to running build.bat, you will notice build errors. Don’t send me a pull request fixing this, I want it to work the way it does now. ......
Posted On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:21 PM | Comments (0)

Introducing this.Log

One of my favorite creations over the past year has been this.Log(). It works everywhere including static methods and in razor views. Everything about how to create it and set it up is in this gist. How it looks public class SomeClass { public void SomeMethod() { this.Log().Info(() => "Here is a log message with params which can be in Razor Views as well: '{0}'".FormatWith(typeof(So... this.Log().Debug("I don't have to be delayed execution or have parameters either"); } public static ......
Posted On Saturday, December 15, 2012 9:22 AM | Comments (2)

Super D to the B to the A – AKA Script for reducing the size of a database

The following is a script that I used to help me clean up a database and reduce the size of it from 95MB down to 3MB so we could use it for a development backup. I will note that we also removed some of the data out. I shared this with a friend recently and he used this to go from 70GB to 7GB! UPDATE: Special Note Please don’t run this against something that is live or performance critical. You want to do this where you are the only person connected to the database, like a restored backup of the ......
Posted On Friday, December 14, 2012 9:43 AM | Comments (1)

Refresh Database–Speed up Your Development Cycles

Refresh database is an workflow that allows you to develop with a migrations framework, but deploy with SQL files. It’s more than that, it allows you to rapidly make changes to your environment and sync up with other teammates. When I am talking about environment, I mean your local development environment: your code base and the local database back end you are hitting. Refresh database comes in two flavors, one for NHibernate and one for Entity Framework. I’m going to show you an example of the one ......
Posted On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:08 PM | Comments (0)

HowTo: Use .NET Code on a Network Share From Windows

If you use VMWare/VirtualPC and you want to offload your source code repositories to your host OS and code from it inside the VM, you need to do a few things to fully trust the share. I’ve found that I keep heading out and searching on this every time I need it so I thought I would write it down this time to save myself the trouble next time. CasPol Changes Save the following as caspol.bat: %WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Fram... -q -machine -ag 1.2 -url file://e:/* FullTrust %WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Fram... ......
Posted On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 1:08 AM | Comments (0)