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System.Net.WebException Too many automatic redirections were attempted 

Categories: .Net

Assuming you do not need more then 50 redirects, your webpage probably redirects because of a missing cookie. Which can not be set because you didn't add a cookie container...

var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Http.Get;
request.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
using (var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
{
using (var stream = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
string html = stream.ReadToEnd();
...
}
}

In case you do need more redirects or more likely less... you can set this property:

request.MaximumAutomaticRedirections = 5;

Windows file paths are too long to install npm packages 

Categories: .Net

It's 2016 and about time, enough of dedupe or other commandline tricks.

More about the file path limitations

Fix 260 character path limited completed message

Visual Studio 2013, C# 6 and .Net 4.6 

Categories: .Net Visual Studio

These steps are needed to get C# 6 features working in your visual studio 2013.

This seems the only workable way for the moment. I hope Microsoft changes it's mind about support for 2013...

Clubbing the seal 

Categories: .Net

"There are those who think that a language should prevent programmers from doing stupid things, and those who think programmers should be allowed to do whatever they want." [Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham]

Cute seal toy on green carpet.

Imagine, you are implementing a DbExecutionStrategy for Entity Framework and you are thinking: Let me inherit this SqlException, so I can create a ThrowTimeOutExpiredSqlException and use this to test my execution strategy... a bit later you realise the class is sealed... bummer... ok let's just use the SqlException class itself and hopefully find the correct properties to make it behave the way I want... bummer again... it seems all the constructors are private... but wait it seems there are some factory methods called CreateException... I am sure that's what I need to use... euh or not since they are marked as internal.

I guess by now you realise I am belonging to the group of developers that thinks programmers should be allowed to do whatever they want.

So why make things so difficult? Why would I want to make things sealed, internal or even non-virtual?

  • Speed optimization
  • Security considerations
  • Ensuring immutables don't become mutables
  • Prevent inheritance fragility

OR...

Because I am to 'lazy' to design the class for inheritance and sealed effectivily says: "The writer of this class did not design this class to be inherited. Nothing less, nothing more."

Of course we need to read lazy as: I am working for a company and I have no time to implement all these other members and think of all the edge cases you might use this class for. Moreover if you inherit my stuff and then it breaks when I change stuff I have to work more and therefor spend more company money... and I think that's the main reason: Maintainability of legacy projects.

And this is also the reason many of the microsoft framework classes are sealed and have internals. Microsoft tries to prevent developers from using things they probably will change or not support in future versions. And if they would allow developers from using them, they would probably break the software when the user does the next windows update. And guess who get's the blame at that moment.

Maybe we should invent an attribute to mark classes with [I_Consider_This_Sealed But_I_Am_Leaving_You_The_Freedom To_Change_It] or some other way to express our intentions. Until then I believe that if you extend a class it's your problem if you break it. Start writing more unit tests.

Anyway, I solved the SqlException thing by using reflection to access the method and I for sure will blame microsoft if they change this method in future EF versions :)

More about seals:

ps: Most of the time I favor composition over inheritance.
ps2: Did you know static classes are actually sealed classes? Maybe that's why I don't like those either...

Exe with all dll assemblies included 

Categories: .Net

When Owin was released, I created WebGenius. A small exe you can drop in any folder, run it and everything is accesible as web pages.

I embedded the assemblies like this:

static Program()
{
   AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve += ResolveAssembly;
}

static Assembly ResolveAssembly(object sender, ResolveEventArgs args)
{
   var resourceName = "WebGenius." + new AssemblyName(args.Name).Name + ".dll";
   Console.WriteLine("Resolving: " + resourceName);
   using (var stream = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(resourceName))
   {
      if (stream == null) return null;
      var assemblyData = new Byte[stream.Length];
      stream.Read(assemblyData, 0, assemblyData.Length);
      return Assembly.Load(assemblyData);
   }
}

However I just found out about an amazing plugin for the Fody dll weaver:

  • Include Costure.Fody nuget into your exe project and your done.

Some options for your FodyWeavers.xml

<Costura CreateTemporaryAssemblies='false' />
<Costura IncludeDebugSymbols='false' />
<Costura DisableCompression='false' />
<Costura ExcludeAssemblies='Foo|Bar' />-->
<Costura IncludeAssemblies='Foo|Bar' />-->
<Costura Unmanaged32Assemblies='Foo32|Bar32' Unmanaged64Assemblies='Foo64|Bar64' />
<Costura PreloadOrder='Foo|Bar' />

Some options for you project file:

<Target Name="CleanReferenceCopyLocalPaths" AfterTargets="AfterBuild;NonWinFodyTarget" >
   <Delete Files="@(ReferenceCopyLocalPaths->'$(OutDir)%(DestinationSubDirectory)%(Filename)%(Extension)')" />
</Target>
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