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Archives / 2009 / May
  • XmlSerializer ignores Culture

    I'm working with an automotive client that has a couple of data formats for some of their files.  One is a simple CSV format and the other is XML using .NET's XML Serializer (nothing fancy).  The CSV format is handy as it's easy for the engineers to quickly load it into Excel and view in a columnar format.  The XML format was implemented as a much more "full featured" version of the data and contains additional metadata to describe the data.  All of the maintenance of these files is very easy as we have a library for dealing with them.

  • OutputDebugStringAppender in a web app?

    I spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to get log4net to log to an OutputDebugStringAppender with no success.  At first, I thought I had a configuration error in log4net so I added a file appender and that works fine.  It's a Monorail application that uses ActiveRecord for database access.  There's a couple of spots where I wanted to check out the SQL being generated by ActiveRecord (NHibernate).  I did all my set up for log4net and even got it logging to a FileAppender.  But I wanted to log the SQL to an OutputDebugStringAppender.