Ryan Cromwell

  1. IIS 7 is so cool

    I'm so behind on IIS 7 it makes me sad. I love HttpModules and HttpHandlers in ASP.Net ( Speedy Rewards transaction processing is based on one I wrote), but this just takes the cake. Up Next: MiniMVC 03-20-2008 11:33 PM by Ryan to Ryan Cromwell Filed under: IIS

  2. So What's Your Windows Experience Score?

    I realize this isn't the MiniMVC post I promised, but that one is a monster and I wanted to feel like I accomplished something this evening. Last week I was forced to replace a dying video card which was a piece-of-junk when I bought it, but, well, I'm cheap. I picked up an…

  3. Virtual PC and Network Places

    I use Virtual PC a lot, especially for development. I try to emulate a mini-infrastructure of how I'll be deploying my solutions, so no SQL Server on my box, no IIS on my box, etc. To support this I use Virtual PC Guy's steps for enabling communication between my host and the…

  4. New Year Indeed

    It has been quite a New Year so far. As of today, Monday January 14th 2008, I have left Speedway and the Speedy Rewards™ team and found new employment with SDS Consulting and I have new eyes courtesy of Lasik Plus of Dayton. I’d say that’s a fairly ambitious first two weeks. I’m…

  5. ASP.Net MVC Checkbox/boolean Value Mapping

    In my quest to get my wpfstyle.com site written in the new ASP.Net MVC framework (day 3) I’ve run across a little issue that I’m sure will come up again. In my world, a checkbox always seemed to imply true/false or yes/no. In reality, it can mean a lot of things in an Html Form.…

  6. ASP.Net MVC and Forms Authentication

    So last weekend I picked up the new ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions Preview CTP (and MVC Toolkit) from the ASP.Net team and I’m loving the MVC bits. I never could get in to MonoRail mainly because I’m a developer diva. I need intellisense, syntax highlighting, the whole deal. For a CTP,…

  7. NHibernate Query Generator Installer for Visual Studio 2008

    I posted recently a manual.reg file for adding the NHibernate Query Generator custom tool to Visual Studio 2008. I just sent Ayende an update to the.Setup Product.wxs, a WiX file, which adds a new fixture specifically for 2008. If you are interested in building the installer and…

  8. NHibernate Query Generator with Visual Studio 2008

    I've been using Ayende's NHibernate Query Generator (NHQG) to help type-ify my NHibernate repository queries. One of the great +1's of his tool is that you can apply it as a Custom Tool for your NHibernate mapping files right within Visual Studio. With this setup, every change to…

  9. Strangest Support Call... EVER

    Here at Speedway our Speedy Rewards team rotates a support phone for any serious problems. Usually it's an Oracle Split-Brain, though we have that under some control. Today it was a little different. I received a call from one of our business clients asking for help in looking up…

  10. NHibernate 1.2.0.x versus 2.0.0.x

    Generics support