I stumbled upon an interesting problem this morning where Castle ActiveRecord was being initialised correctly in the development environment, but as soon as everything was rolled out to the lab environment, the application would throw errors about AR not being initialised. The error message was along the lines of: An ActiveRecord class (Darkside.Domain.Person) was used but the framework seems not properly initialized. Did you forget about ActiveRecordStarter.Initialize() ? A bit of background info: As is custom in our web projects, we use an HttpModule to do the AR initialisation. In this case, the web project is actually a...

If you've decided to self-host a WCF service - or as in my case you already have a service in production but need it to be consumed by a Silverlight application, but keep on getting a security exception, here's a method of getting your existing services to work. It involves getting the WCF service to serve a "file" called "clientaccesspolicy.xml" when one is requested, as is done by Silverlight.