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Assembly Binding Log Viewer and IIS Express

After making significant changes to a C# Web Application I got the following message displayed on starting the web site from Visual Studio using IIS Express: Parser Error Message: Could not load file or assembly ‘MyDomain.UI.UserSite’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. … Assembly Load Trace: The following information […]

Getting the Build Date from a .Net Version Number

If only the first two parts of the version number (major and minor version) are specified in the code and an asterisk is added for the others then the last two parts will be populated automatically: the third part (the build number) is the number of days since the beginning of 2000 and the fourth […]

Rounding .Net DateTime to match SQL Server

The SQL Server DateTime type is represented by LINQ to SQL as a .Net System.DateTime type. This presents a small problem in that the .Net type supports more precision – a “tick” representing 100 nanoseconds – than the SQL type which is “rounded to increments of .000, .003, or .007 seconds”. It is worth noting […]