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Could not load file or assembly ‘ChilkatDotNet2’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.

By Alex
In Development
July 30, 2009
1 Min read
55 comments
C

Whilst setting up an application to run on my local machine (running Vista 64bit) I encountered this error: Could not load file or assembly ‘ChilkatDotNet2’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.   Obviously, the application uses ChilKat components, but it would seem that the version we are using, is only the 32bit version. To...

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Using JoeBlogs -metaWeblog API Wrapper

By Alex
In Development
July 7, 2009
1 Min read
71 comments
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Step 1 Download the latest release of JoeBlogs from Codeplex (Click the Downloads tab, and select the latest download) Step 2 Unzip the contents of the downloaded zip file. (I usually copy DLLs I am going to use into a “lib” folder at the root of my solution) Step 3 Add a reference to BOTH CookComputing.XmlRpcV2.dll AND JoeBlogs.dll Include AlexJamesBrown.JoeBlogs in your class, with using /...

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C# WordPress Wrapper

By Alex
In Uncategorised
May 22, 2009
1 Min read
9 comments
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Ok, I’ve barely finished this as a stable release, but I thought I’d post this up any way…. A little open source project I’m working on – Joe Blogs. In a nutshell, it allows easy communication to your WordPress (or other blog) via an xml-rpc interface. Big thanks to the work by Charles Cook at Joe Blogs is currently hosted on CodePlex – I’ll be posting more info, tutorials, documentation...

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String.EndsWithAny and StartsWithAny Extension Method

By Alex
In Development
May 8, 2009
1 Min read
2 comments
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It frustrated me that while String provides the StartsWith and EndWith method, it doesn’t provide an EndWithAny. So, if I wanted to see if a particular string started or ended with any specified string, I would have to create my own method to return a true or false. Whilst this is fine, it’s a little clunky if I want to use it in various places in my application. For this reason, I...

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Session_Start event not firing

By Alex
In Development
November 19, 2008
1 Min read
1 comment
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I’ve been scratching my head about this one for sometime… As I’m sure your aware (or you wouldn’t be reading this) in the Global.asax file, we have the following method: protected void Session_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) { } Placing a breakpoint on this method, I attached the debugger, ran up my application, and the breakpoint was not hit… What I would of...

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