Application Settings are the recommended way to save state between runs of your program. Long gone are the days of using the registry or INI files to save information. The only problem with Application Settings though is that they tend to disappear whenever you release a new version of your application. Fortunately, it is easy [...]

As the people who know me know, I have been a big proponent of log4net over the years. I tried very hard to stick with log4net despite years of inactivity of the project. Over the years, I found, reported and fixed issues, but the patches have never been applied. I have reached out to the [...]

log4net is a great logging framework for .NET, but it hasn’t been updated in years. When we moved to Windows Vista, we noticed that the UdpAppender stopped working with Chainsaw and with our internal logging tools when logging to localhost. After some Googling, we discovered that replacing localhost with 127.0.0.2 got everything working and we [...]

In my last two posts, I have been developing a small utility library to do the grunt work of copying data from an instance of one class to an instance of another type. The Copier class from my last post allows me to copy all public properties from one class to another class as long [...]

In my last post, I created a method that does the grunt work of copying data from an instance of one class to an instance of another type. I often find myself copying data between the properties of my data layer classes and those of my user interface like this. // Copy the data from [...]