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I am often asked the question “Can’t I just RUN my Windows Service without installing and starting it?”. My answer usually is “No, you can’t but…” There is a “but”: you can create your Windows service as a hybrid application, so it will run as a console application also. Why would you want to do [...]

I just added support for SQLite 3 to CoolStorage.NET (my object mapping library). I used the open source System.Data.SQLite ADO.NET provider which seems a pretty solid product. Adding support for this “lite” database was pretty straightforward. The only problem I had was with quoted identifiers: identifiers can be quoted using double quotes, but they behave [...]

Nothing really, if you use it for simple personal projects. Once you start building web applications that are a bit more complex, you start running into all kinds of problems. What kind of problems am I talking about? Building web sites in multiple languages is a major pain in the butt. Once you have 2 [...]