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LIFTI and Porter stemming

Dec 7, 2010

Back in the original post where I first introduced LIFTI I wrote: LIFTI will not...: Handle word derivatives, e.g. if “Cats” is searched for, objects containing just the word “Cat” would not be returned. This was always something that I wanted to handle, but felt that it was better to have a …

Using T4 to generate content at runtime

Nov 19, 2010

UPDATE 9 April 2014: The source is also available on GitHub** ** T4 (the Text Template Transformation Toolkit) is slowly becoming more widely known as a way to generate code to be compiled and used alongside hand-written code. Frameworks such as the Entity Framework V4 have adopted it for its code generation, allowing …

LIFTI: Searching Pascal-cased words

Nov 18, 2010

This post will show how LIFTI can be adapted to index and search upon Pascal-cased words, similar to Visual Studio 2010’s Navigate To window. (Or Resharper’s Go to symbol command, if you’re so inclined) The code for this sample can be found in the Lifti solution: …

Errors using a custom RIA authentication service (and how to resolve them)

Jun 30, 2010

If you’ve created your own authentication service for a Silverlight RIA application, you might encounter the following scenarios: 1) If you get the following errors: GetUser should have returned a single user Logout should have returned a single, anonymous user Then the chances are your implementation of …

Creating a lightweight in-memory full text indexer

Jan 29, 2010

Introduction SQL Server provides a really powerful full text index feature whereby you can run queries along the lines of “find me comments that contain the words ‘success’ and ‘happy’". That’s all well and good when you are using SQL Server to retrieve data, but what do you do …

Using a recursive CTE to read the root parent id of a hierarchical table

Dec 8, 2009

Note that this post could be considered the second part in my previously incredibly short series of 1 posts: Good Uses for SQL Server 2005 Common Table Expressions - previous entries being: Part 1 - Determining the top and bottom n pieces of information in a set Part 0 - Introduction -- Ok, so the title of the post …

How to determine the version of IIS

Mar 9, 2009

It took me far too long to work this out; I needed to know whether or not it was safe to try and set the ManagedPipelineMode property on an AppPool, and I figured the best way to do it would be to check the current IIS version and if it was 7.0 or above. The code to get the current version is straightforward, once you …

Creating MSBuild XSD schemas for your custom tasks

Dec 8, 2008

Update 12/10/2012 - Since the LSS website is no longer active, I’ve moved the download to this site. I’ve just uploaded a little utility onto our website herethe downloads section on this site that should help those developers that write their own MSBuild tasks. One of the nice features that’s a …

Collapsing Visual Studio Solution Explorer to Project Definitions

Jan 23, 2008

Here’s a little macro I’ve just knocked up that will collapse a Visual Studio Solution to just its project definitions - put here so you can use it too and I have access to it everywhere I work! 1 2Sub CollapseToProjects() 3 Dim items As UIHierarchyItems 4 Dim i As Integer 5 6 ' Get the root Solution …

Good Uses for SQL Server 2005 Common Table Expressions (Part 1)

Jan 11, 2008

Previous posts in this series: Part 0 - Introduction Determining the top and bottom n pieces of information in a set This scenario involves a set that has a column with both positive and negative ranges of data. The requirement is to filter it such that the only rows returned are those with the 3 highest positive and …