Awww cmon Microsoft, play nice with us. I want to do something that should be pretty simple, I just need to know what action is being wrapped by my custom filter in ASP.NET MVC After a surreal amount of Googling I finally found a blog post that showed where this little bit of information hides, in filterContext...

As the discussion on the altdotnet list continued ( some of it around my blog yesterday ), it became apparent that some people didn't want to use an IoC container - but more confusing was that their objection to the whole pattern was that they thought the IoC container in here meant I was writing...

A discussion on the altdotnet list just came up around logging. After some various suggestions, I asked what was wrong with using optional dependencies and the built in logging facility in Castle Windsor . It seemed the most obvious answer Of course, I completely forgot that when I first tried to figure...

Oren always amazes me - I think he is psychic! Whenever I have a problem, I almost always find Oren blogged about it a few days before - and today's bugbear is a perfect example. I started the day off with a really weird timeout exception in WCF. The code was just fine apparently, and I spent a very...

Update: Re-published from old blog I found a need yesterday to test some code in particular security contexts. After some (as always) prompt guidance from the altdotnet mailing list, I had the (as it turns out) all too simple solution. xUnit includes an attribute for this, but as I'm using NUnit...

Update: Re-published from old blog I've done it before, but my mind went totally blank yesterday ... due to some typically quick responses from the Castle Users Google Group ... here is the code to do it for future generations to avoid my same silly mistakes ... 1: WindsorContainer container = new...