Category Archives: c#

C# XML encoding woes

July 21, 2006 – 1:01 pm

I have a simple XML document fragment with a euro symbol in it:
[code lang="xml"]
Lorem ipsˆum dolor sit amet,
[/code]
which I want to load into an XML document.
[code lang="cpp"]
System.Xml.XmlDocument doc=new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xml);
[/code]
I then output the XML of that doc to see that all is well – alas it is not, It has decided to re-enocde my beautiful numeric [...]

By philroche | Also posted in Techie, xml, xslt | Comments (0)

Dev crazy

July 10, 2006 – 8:48 pm

In an attempt to vary the type of programming I am doing, out of office I have been working on quite a few cool projects. Outlined a few below – unfortunately none are for download yet as they are still in progress.

KarovaDev Firefox extension
As Karova’s main product is a hosted e-commerce solution, we naturally have [...]

By philroche | Also posted in Linux, Techie, Ubuntu, firefox, mod_python, python, xml | Comments (1)

IIS wants it’s 80 back

May 17, 2006 – 6:24 pm

Once again microsoft succeed in completely baffling me with a non sensical error message – “Unexpected Error 0×8ffe2740 Occurred”.

What it really meant to say was that IIS is not able start on port 80 so sort it out, the reason for this was Skype (As I have seen before).

By philroche | Also posted in Techie | Comments (2)

ASPX craziness

March 21, 2006 – 6:49 pm

There I was hammering away, well in the zone writing a pretty beefy login system in C# when all of a sudden all the pages stopped working. I was running the application on my own machine so I tried to debug by setting a breakpoint and attaching the aspnet worker process. Nope just output [...]

By philroche | Also posted in General, Techie | Comments (0)