How to: Query for Characters in a String (LINQ)

This is more for my own notes as anything else. I always seem to find myself with a list of strings and the need to query them. So here's a quick reminder how to do it.

string[] strings = GetStrings(); //some method returning string[]

IEnumerable s = from str in strings
where !str.ToLower().Contains("SomeString".ToLower())
select str;

It works.

The directory property cannot be found in the cache

Authorization Manager - Azman is a great tool... a pain to get setup if you don't have all the details.

Exception Details: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: The directory property cannot be found in the cache.

There is very little documentation on solving the errors you see when you've never seen it working.

If you see the error above you may have skipped the fact that you need to setup an impersonation context in your web.config so your user can see the AzMan application.

In my case I am trying to connect to an AzMan application that lives in a domain that trusts my own domain so the recommended setting of the Asp.Net user as the impersonation context did not work. I stupidly fumbled with this for hours.

- Hal

Izabella made it

Well no time for blogging but Izabella made it on Dec. 18th, 2008. I just thought I better add something so that my millions of readers didn't have to hold their breath all year.

Baby Izabella is almost here!

Well here I sit, one week from the scheduled delivery date of my #2 daughter. Basically scared out of my wits. How will my #1 daughter react when I actually bring home a live one? One that she can't put away in her toybox?

 

Jennifer really hates being pregnant but she sure makes pretty babies. For the record, I am very proud of my wife and the way she handles this prego stuff. I can't imagine what it's like but I guess that's why God made me a man. I have created a big ol' list of addresses in my gmail all ready to send out the announcement. I've tried to accomplish all the honey-do's and the babies room looks great.

 

Ahhh but the joy we will experience... ok that's it.

Jeremy Visits

Ya know it’s good to have friends. I just had a "pass-through" visit from a friend that Jennifer and I made on our honeymoon in 2003. We met Jeremy and Lisa in Jamaica just after our ceremony and have been friends every since.

Jeremy is on his way to the Galveston, Texas area where he'll be flying helicopters back and forth to oil & gas rigs. Pretty cool job from where I sit... in my cubicle, in Fort Worth, Texas.

New Job & Off to L.A.

ok so first post of 2008, like I said, I never post. Well after a few contracting gigs this year (Dyncorp Intl, XTO, etc...) I found gainful, permanent employment with a great company called ErxNetwork that does some really cool stuff with prescription transaction switching.

So far so good. I like it, my wife likes that I like it, all is good in the Diggs household. I'm headed to L.A. next week for something called Guerrilla .NET training. Although I dont' relish the idea of leaving the family I think its going to be a great course.

The pool this summer

This past weekend (father's day) I got to show off my whitetrash side. I promised my wife that someday we'd have a pool in the backyard... now she's sorry! My father and I split the cost of one of those giant backyard pools that you can get off the shelf at Walmart.  I don't mind telling you that I was laughing at my self the whole time. All I could think of was growing up in lower-middle class neighborhoods where some of my frinds had those big metalic-sided pools that would rust and become eye sores with in a year or two.

 

Advances in technology now let me have one of these things with NO metal in it at all! I am serious, this thing is like a gigantic inflatable raft on steroids. I can't wait to post a photo of us in the pool, have a great day!

-- Hal