by Oliver
16. September 2011 20:06
Lately, I was having trouble debugging certain parts of my code in Visual Studio, and all I wanted to know was the value of some variable at some point in time. Well, I’d use some logging if I could just get at that value easily. But for some objects I don’t really know what I’m looking for or where...
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by Oliver
15. September 2011 17:05
Today, I tried importing a CSV file like the following into one of our MS SQL Server databases: Id;Latitude;Longitude 4610;43.7119;-1.0737 5502;49.4297;-1.806 11360;46.9343;-1.8875 I tried it using the following command line: 1: bcp GeoDataImport in geodata...
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by Oliver
12. September 2011 01:46
Update: I filed a bug in the Orchard issue tracker and it’s already been fixed. Nice work! We’ve just started to build our own customized search module. The goal is to have checkboxes for all searchable boolean properties of a given ContentPart and search by checking or unchecking them. In Orcha...
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by Oliver
9. September 2011 22:29
Today I went off to create a custom search module for our new Orchard based web application. I simply copied the module Orchard.Search, renamed all namespaces and such to Teamaton.Search, replaced some strings and prepended a prefix of “Teamaton” to a bunch of them. I wanted the new module to be abl...
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by Oliver
8. September 2011 02:41
On Camping.info, we use flot 0.7 with jQuery and asynchronous updates for internal click statistics visualization. Unfortunately, we’ve been having some trouble with our flot graph – but only in IE8 and only sometimes! This has been really annoying, especially since we’re expecting a usage growth of...
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by Oliver
7. September 2011 01:02
A while ago, we decided to build discoverize – our generic portal software inspired by www.camping.info – using Orchard, “a free, open source, community-focused project aimed at delivering applications and reusable components on the ASP.NET platform.” We will write about our experience with Orchard...
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by Oliver
6. September 2011 22:18
Recently, we encountered a quite surprising behavior of MSBuild – the continuous integration build of our new collaborative Todo Management app (we hope to go into beta soon!) would produce a broken version whereas the local build with VS2010 was all smooth and well. Our admin and tester already pos...
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by Oliver
17. August 2011 18:28
Lately, we encountered a problem with the speed of our search on www.camping.info for a certain set of search criteria. It sometimes used to take over a few seconds before the updated results were shown. This most likely seemed to be a problem with the database so I went to investigate the offending...
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by Oliver
22. July 2011 18:45
Today I hit a quite subtle bug setting up persistence for our soon-to-appear new todo management tool. Since we’re building on ASP.NET 4 I simply used the ISet<T> and HashSet<T> types in the System.Collections.Generic namespace for all entity collections, e.g. 1: using System.Collecti...
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by Oliver
15. July 2011 09:07
For our portal software discoverize I was looking for a way to create new modules faster and more reliably. The basic structure would always be the same, so a Visual Studio multi-file template seemed appropriate: Well, unfortunately I didn’t find a way to create new folders with that approach. Mu...
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