Category: Howto

  • PDFsharp: Reading pdf documents created with Microsoft Report Viewer 2010

    I’m using the .NET library PDFsharp to merge PDF documents created with Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 into a new PDF document. After upgrading the Microsoft Report Viewer and using the most recent version 2010 to create the individual PDF documents, the merged document contained only blank pages. It turned out, that PDFsharp is not able […]

  • ASP.NET MVC: Fix IControllerFactory implementation after upgrading from MVC 2 to MVC 3

    Recently, I upgraded an ASP.NET MVC 2 application to ASP.NET MVC 3. I used the ASP.NET MVC 3 Application Upgrader tool (see this blog post for more information) which enables you to upgrade an existing MVC 2 project automatically. After the upgrade process I got an compile error in my custom controller factory, because the […]

  • ASP.NET MVC: How to add ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET)

    In this tutorial, you will find a step by step instruction how to add ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET) to your existing ASP.NET MVC application. ELMAH is an easy-to-plug in library that logs and reports unhandled exceptions in ASP.NET application. It is described as follows: ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is […]

  • ASP.NET MVC: How to use Apache’s log4net logging framework

    This blog post will give an short overview of the steps needed to integrate the Apache log4net logging framework to an ASP.NET MVC 3 Web application. For simplicity, we are starting from a new ASP.NET MVC 3 Web application and choose the “Internet Application” template to have some default controllers and views. To include the […]

  • yaVDR 0.3.0a: Logitech Harmony 785 button setup for Antec Fusion Remote

    This blog post gives an overview of how I’ve configured the buttons of my Logitech Harmony 785 remote control to work with yaVDR 0.3.0a and the integrated IR receiver of my Antec Fusion Remote HTPC enclosure. Read my previous post about how to set up the yaVDR 0.3.0a system to use the enclosure’s integrated IR […]

  • Configure nullmailer to use SMTP authentication

    nullmailer is a minimalistic and easy to configure MTA (mail transport agent). It is described on the homepage as follows: Nullmailer is a mail transport agent designed to only relay all its messages through a fixed set of “upstream” hosts. It is also designed to be secure. nullmailer is a good choice for systems that […]