The Problem... For a (personal) project I'm currently working on, I decided to use the Logging and Instrumentation application block from the Enterprise Library to handle logging. The problem I ran into was that I wanted my log destination to be an XML file. Why is that a problem? Well, there's...

[Update, 3/28/07: Changed recommendation to not use conditional compilation constants to vary behavior between debug and release mode.] There are two things I loathe during development: spending any time at all with the VS.NET debugger and seeing "object reference not set to an instance of an object...

I'm somewhat of a n00b when it comes to object-oriented development and C# , but that is what I've been doing for the past couple of years now. My background is in more procedural type programming languages, like PL/SQL (I did a lot of Oracle development early in my software development career...