Monthly Archives: May 2011

Iterate folders non-recursively

2011-05-25 – 01:15

Here are a few methods to help iterate complete directory trees and the files in them without using recursive method calls. The directories are read one at a time to keep memory usage at a minimum. These restrictions enables iterating trees in very large file shares. static IEnumerable<string> GetDirectories(string startDirectory) { var dirsToVisit = new Stack<string>(); [...]

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Document Property Promotion in SharePoint

2011-05-24 – 08:43

While building a service for SP2010 that uploads a document and adds metadata, I ran into some trouble with the document property promotion service in SharePoint. In short its job is to keep properties in the files in sync with the list item field values. When you upload an Office Open XML document or an image, SharePoint [...]

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NLog configuration file

2011-05-10 – 08:37

I often use NLog for diagnostic tracing in e.g. services. NLog is very much like log4net (log4j for .net) except that it is still being maintained, was written for .NET and features a very flexible end extensible logging framework. See also the post about interceptors. This is an example of a nlog.config I recently used [...]

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Return value missing from xml doc

2011-05-3 – 03:55

I recently used Oleg Tkachenko’s nice (and old) MultiOutTransform to generate HTML documentation for a little C# project. It was important that the documentation was always updated, so I checked the “XML documentation file” project setting and added a call to MultiOutTransform in the post build event. There is a small, but quite imporant thing [...]

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