Sunday 13 April 2014

Book Clearout

I had a tidy-up and spring clean of my home office yesterday, and I cleared a lot of books of my shelves. Before they go to the tip for recycling, here's a list of what I cleared. If anyone wants any of these, let me know by 18th April.

A Programmers Introduction to C#, Eric Gunnerson
Visual C# Language Reference
Programming ASP.NET 2.0 Advanced Topics 2005 Ed, Dino Esposito
Debugging .NET 2.0 Apps, John Robbins
Javascript: The Definitive Guide 4th Ed, David Flanagan
ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook, Geoffrey LeBlond
Essential ASP.NET 2.0, Fritz Onion
nHibernate in Action, Pierre Kuate
ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control & Component Development, Shahram Khosravi
The Definitive Guide to The Microsoft Enterprise Library, Keenan Newton
ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology, Jeff Atwood
ADO.NET & ADO Examples and Best Practices, Bill Vaughn
Pro ASP.NET MVC 1.0, Scott Hanselman
Building a Web 2.0 Portal w/ASP.NET 3.5, Omar Al-Zabir
Designing and Developing Web-Based Applications Using the .NET Framework, Mike Snell
Distributed .NET Programming in VB.NET, Tom Barnaby
Applied ADO.NET, Mahesh Chand
Developing ASP.NET Server Controls & Components, Nikhil Kothari
Enterprise Development with Visual Studio.NET, UML & MSF, John Erik Hansen
Inside VS.NET 2003, Brian Johnson

Wednesday 19 February 2014

64-bit Considered Harmful...

Thought I should write about a problem I ran into last month in the hope that it saves someone else some heartache (or potentially someone tells me how to fix it...)

A few weeks ago, while I was searching for something else in Visual Studio's Settings, I ran across this option:
I run on 64-bit Windows, so I figured this would be a sensible option to set and switched it on. And all was good in the world.

Until I started on a new project a couple of weeks later, that is, when running it up for the first time I was puzzled to see this YSOD:
Invalid program? What the hell's that coming from? The only thing that I could immediately think of was that the last thing I did before hitting F5 was to install Ninject. I cast around for an hour or so trying assorted types of restarting processes/PCs etc, before going to Twitter...

Fran quickly replied with this:

which was the clue I needed:
And yep, as soon as I turned off 64-bit IIS Express the world righted itself...

So I'm interested to know what causes this and whether there's a way to successfully run Ninject in 64-bit code (I'm quite prepared for this to be something related to my inexperience with Ninject).