Web.config transformations is a Microsoft-supported technology for adapting a base configuration to a particular deployment environment. In my previous post, I mentioned how AppHarbor provides an online tool for manually testing transformations. Also, the Visual Studio extension SlowCheetah provides support for manually testing and transformation and diffing them against the base configuration from inside Visual Studio. These [...]

In the project I’m currently working on, we use Web.config transformations to adapt a base configuration to a particular deployment environment. I was adding a transformation to adapt our NLog configuration for the various environments, when I ran into a problem. I’d added the following transformation, intended to set the log level to Warning on [...]

Want an easy way to configure your Inversion of Control (IoC) container using an API? Don’t care one iota about which specific container you actually are using you just want to get the work done? Want to configure your IoC in a type safe manner? Read on and find out how! Scroll passed the background [...]

Great news everyone: just recently an all-new version of Apache HttpClient was released. HttpClient is now part of the new initiative Apache HttpComponents, which seems to aim for a complete approach to Http programming in Java; server side as well as client side. I’ve used Commons HttpClient in older versions on several occasions in the [...]