Tellicamp: Bring your sleeping bag and toothbrush!

The weather during the past two days has been absolutely spectacular! I wish we were a little closer to the gulf so I could take a quick ride to the beach.

I really like the new task website (Tellicamp); I know exactly what myself and co-workers have to get done by the end of the day! The Telliterns have quickly killed the list of TODOs. I can’t wait till see tomorrows feedback from Rob Howard, Jason Alexander and the rest of the Telligent.

I spent a little time debugging today, the reason is because I received the exception Unable to evaluate expression because the code is optimized or a native frame is on top of the call stack. I googled this exception because I have never seen it before, quickly I found out that the search results had nothing to do with what I was working on. I was stuck in a state of mind wondering to myself what could be causing this. What I didn’t realize that when you touch an assembly in the bin directory it restarts the application, I thought only touching the web.config would restart the application.

How I got into the situation is I set up a System File Watcher to watch the bin directory for new assemblies. Once this watcher fired an event, I checked to see if the file was of the proper type and then used Activator.CreateInstance to create a new instance of the class. However, once the event fires, and the code is executing, ASP.Net has already started to restart the application.

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