I’ve been playing with the Wix Installer for the last few days, and I’m absolutely amazed by it. It’s a real bastard to get into, but once you’re up and running it’s pretty incredible how much can be customised. There is a LOT of documentation out there, but the most... [Read More]

One thing I’ve found annoying for the long time, is trying to assert DateTime equality when unit testing, particularly when the DateTimes have been parsed from strings in the underlying method. Two DateTime constructs, despite being identical in terms of their values, often won’t assert as being equal and your... [Read More]

I Used ILMerge today for the first time, and it’s great. Aspnet_merge.exe is actually based on this tool, and it allows you to combine all your assemblies into a single exe or dll - great for simple deployment. [Read More]

I wanted to build a Visual Studio solution using MSBuild using a Powershell script. Surprisingly, I couldn’t find a reference on the web that actually worked for me. I thought I’d post it here for future reference, as it applies to the execution of any executable from within Powershell. It... [Read More]

I ran into an issue with log4net today where it just would NOT log to the database. I knew the database connection settings were fine, and the config file was fine, but some minor changes I had made to field sizes resulted in the whole thing not logging. [Read More]