Get the Moq Mock from a mock object

Update: See Vladimir's comment below for the built in one-liner.

So there you in your code or possible your debugger and immediate window and you have a mock object and realise you want to change the setup but you didn't keep a reference to the Mock<> ...
So your first though is, no problem, you can cast your object to one of type Castle.Proxies.MyStronglyTypedProxyClass and voila you have access to the Mock property. Except that the compiler doesn't recognise Castle.Proxies.MyStronglyTypedProxyClass as real class.
So then you try reflection to get hold of the Mock property. Which nearly works, but you get a System.Reflection.AmbiguousMatchException : Ambiguous match found. because there's more than one property called Mock (one with and one without a generic parameter).
But this worked for me:
[csharp]public static Mock<T> GetMockFromObject<T>(T mockedObject) where T : class
{
PropertyInfo[] pis = mockedObject.GetType().GetProperties()
.Where(
p => p.PropertyType.Name == "Mock`1"
).ToArray();
return pis.First().GetGetMethod().Invoke(mockedObject, null) as Mock<T>;
}
[/csharp]
hope that helps.

I want to set a Windows Environment Variable for my whole user login session

Use setx to permanently set an environment variable

If you've used windows environment variables at all, you've probably wished you could set them in a command window for use in another program.
You can't change the environment of an already-running program - the environment is copied when a program starts - but you can set environments values for your user session that will be picked up by any new programs you launch with setx:
[shell]setx myvariable thenewvalue[/shell]
Much easier than right-clicking to get to My Computer properties.
setx /? will also tell you about setting permanent, machine-wide and remote machine environment values.

setx comes with Windows 7 or in the Windows Resouce Kit.

How to unset a variable set with setx

[shell]setx myvariable ""[/shell]
See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/195050 for more details.

Asp.net / IIS7 : System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly

You have something like this:


Server Error in '/Vendorapplication' Application.
Could not load file or assembly 'Oracle.DataAccess' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'Oracle.DataAccess' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.
Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

It's because you are trying to run 32 bit dlls on a 64 bit system. Fix it in IIS manager by changing the advanced settings on you application pool to enable 32 bit applications. Or create a new app pool specifically for them.

Alex James Brown has a nice picture: change app pool to 32 bit