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.NET
Use Aliases to develop against SQL Server on different machines
Mar 13th
This is a little tip that I've found useful when working on projects on different machines. If you have a desktop machine and separate database server then you generally wouldn't need to have SQL server running locally – either the full version OR the SQL Express edition. So, within your app the connection string would
NHibernate.Search using Lucene.NET Full Text Index (1)
Mar 10th
Ayende added the NHibernate.Search last year but I've never seen a great deal of documentation or examples around it so hopefully this post will help others to get started with it. Basically, this addition to NHibernate brings two of the best open source libraries together – NHibernate as the Object Relational Mapper that persists your
Running .NET Apps in 32-bit mode on 64-bit Windows
Dec 17th
The normal behavior for .NET 2.0 applications compiled with the default 'Any CPU' platform is to run as 32-bit on x86 (32-bit) Windows and as 64-bit on x64 (64-bit) Windows. Occasionally, some apps won't run correctly – I've recently run into this with CCNetConfig (a CruiseControl.NET Configuration tool) and have seen it before with other tools.