Author Archives: Mikkel Ovesen
IDrive .NET backup library
What does IDriveLibrary it do? IDrive EVS gives you 5GB of free backup space on the IDrive platform. IDrive EVS makes it possible via a kind of web http interface to upload files and more. The library I have written … Continue reading
NHibernate Membase caching provider
Enyim has made a nice client library for both Memcache and Membase. Membase can be used as a free distributed caching platform. With the new provider model introduced in ASP.NET 4, it is now possible to write providers for output … Continue reading
Membase local development machine ip problem – FIXED
Membase caching stops working I struggled with Membase last night. I added NHibernate 2. level caching, Asp.net Session caching, Output caching and custom caching to some new Membase providers. It worked at first, but then suddenly nothing was cached, and … Continue reading
Membase cache item expiration issue
Membase can be used as a distributed caching platform, and best of all… it is free to use. This is from their website: Unlimited use in development and up to two nodes may be deployed for free in a production … Continue reading
Sample TwitterTest authentication and console application
How to make your application or service tweet My case: I have a windows service and I want to be able to know the internal state of this service and e.g. when an exception was thrown. The obviusl answer for … Continue reading
Mercurial problems with Danish letters
Mercurial can have problems with handling non ASCII letters in file names, comments etc. when it across different platforms (Windows, Unix, MacOSX). I have even experienced the problem within different versions of Windows. The problem: File names containg e.g. æøå is … Continue reading
Umbraco TinyMCE converting absolute to relative url
Well here is how you work around the issue. Open the config/tinyMceConfig.config and add the lines 5 and 6 to your config: <!– this area is for custom config settings that should be added during TinyMCE initialization –> <customConfig> <config … Continue reading
Async Httphandlers in ASP.NET
What is the correct way to create a httphandler that potentially can take time and resources to complete. Well this article explains it very well: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164128.aspx If you don’t want to read all, you find the best solution in the … Continue reading
Manually start Visual Studio dev. web server
I needed to manually start the Visual Studio dev. web server for profililng purposes… The web server is located here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\DevServer\9.0\WebDev.WebServer.EXE Arguments /port:<port number> Optional, an unused port number between 1 and 65535. /path:<physical path> A … Continue reading
Google Sitemap .NET links
Some links with information about creating a Google Sitemap either directly in XML or via some .NET code. http://gerardmcgarry.com/blog/creating-a-google-sitemap-aspnet-website http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/GoogleSiteMapProvider.aspx