Web Development Blog

NHibernate with logging throws a Security Exception under Medium Trust

Monday November 28 2011

I am using NHibernate 3.2.0 under medium trust and all was going well until I turned on logging to try and trace a SQL error. It seems that when you set the log4net logging level to INFO that under a medium trust NHibernate throws a Security Exception. You can see from the stack trace exactly where the error was occurring, its quite clear. In the NHibernate source the static constructor for the Environment you can see that the NHibernate Version is logged, I was picking that is where the the error was occurring.

Problem getting log4net 1.2.10 working with ASP.Net 4

Sunday November 20 2011

Just a quick note on getting log4net 1.2.10 working with ASP.Net 4. I had been working with log4net version 1.2.10.0 in ASP.Net 3.5 and it had been working but after upgrading the project to ASP.NET 4 I noticed an odd behavior. It would log only one message to the log file and refused to log any further messages until the application was restarted.

Running Lucene.Net under Medium Trust

Saturday November 19 2011

I'm in the middle of moving a web application from a Full Trust environment to a Medium Trust environment. There was all sorts of things that wouldn't work under Medium Trust as they did under Full Trust. I updated the version of Lucene.Net I was using to Lucene.Net 2.9.2. Of course it would work out of the box.

Resize RadSplitter to the size of its content

Saturday August 13 2011

Working with the Telerik RadSplitter control I had the situation where I had dynamic controls in a panel inside a RadSplitter. If you are using any sort of tree control or expanding panel you will find the RadSplitter is only resized to the size of the contents when the page first loads and if you change the height of the content you get scroll bars. I have searched for a solution and all information from Telerik indicate this is by design and the control doesn't support this type of behavior. But it is possible, if you look at the online help you will see they use the splitter control with this exact behavior. Find a page with a little bit on content and expand the tree menu.You will find the RadSplitter controls height is increased and no scroll bars appear. So how come it works here?

Running Silverlight in Firefox 5 on OSX requires restart in 32 bit mode

Thursday June 30 2011

I ran into the problem with Firefox 5 where when I visited a web page using Silverlight that Firefox prompted me that the plugin would not work and I would need to restart in 32 bit mode. After the restart I would work but its a pain as each time I restarted I would be prompted to again.

jQuery News Ticker

Monday April 25 2011

I wanted a typewriter style news ticker that would display news items one character at a time. I had a look round and there are a few jQuery news tickers available but I just wanted something very simple that worked with jQuery 1.3.2. I couldn't find a plugin that exactly fitted my requirements so I decided to make my own.

How to join multiple mpeg video files on OSX

Wednesday March 30 2011

Today had a video that was split into 10 smaller mpg video files. The video files were named 0001.mpg, 0002.mpg etc... I wanted to merge these into a single mpg video file. Seems quite straight forward but I couldn't find an easy way to do this on OSX.

Custom Domain using nHibernate dynamic-component

Sunday December 5 2010

I have been working on providing a user defined domain object to my C# ASP.NET nHibernate project. I have been undecided on which approach to take. One difficulty is that the the mapping files I am using are embedded so they cannot be changed. After some research I had been considering two options. Using a one-to-many look up table which contained all the custom attributes or using a dynamic-component mapping.