ASP.NET MVC
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Vanilla build server and a little NuGet gem
Vanilla build server is a concept that says that the build server should have as few dependencies as possible. It should be like vanilla ice cream without any raisins (I have raisins in ice cream). Let me cite the classic (from: Continuous Integration in .NET): “It’s strongly suggested that you dedicate a separate machine to act as the CI server. Why? Because a correctly created CI process should have as few dependencies as possible. This means your machine should be as vanilla as possible. For a .NET setup, it’s best to have only the operating system, the .NET framework, and probably the source control client. Some CI servers also need…
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WCF services behind NAT problem and solution
Problem: We have a set of WCF services working on a server. We have an ordinary ASP.NET page that calls one of the services to display its state. When we call that page we is supposed to look like this: Green page indicates everything works fine. At a customers we’ve installed the services. The message was: There was no endpoint listening at http://…/Services/BasicDataService.svc/DeliverServiceState that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details. We quickly discovered that there was nothing wrong with the services. Our app worked fine and we were able to call the “.svc” endpoint…