WCF CommunicationException TCP error

When trying to get a WCF service working over TCP, if the following CommunicationException is thrown on calling the ServiceHost object’s Open method:

A TCP error (10013: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions) occurred while listening on IP Endpoint=0.0.0.0:8080.

The likely causes are (1) the endpoint is being used by another running process or (2) a firewall is blocking access to this port.

To resolve this, run the following netstat command to see all sockets in use:

netstat –a

If this endpoint is listed in the output from netstat, try changing the service endpoint address to use a different port. (If the service is running on a computer with Windows Firewall, the Windows Security Alert dialogue may appear - the dialogue provides an option to allow access through the firewall.)

If the error is still being thrown, check that the port is not being blocked by a firewall.

How to make NHibernate ignore rows with an incorrect discriminator for an association subclass

If you are mapping a class hierarchy to a single table in NHibernate by using a discriminator column to differentiate between the subclasses, if one of the concrete subclasses is being used as an association for another type you might run into the situation where incorrect data (i.e. discriminator value) in the database causes NHibernate to throw an exception complaining that it cannot find the class. (This can also happen if you are using the where attribute to exclude a reserved entity from being picked up.) The default behaviour is to throw an NHibernate.ObjectNotFoundException exception on accessing a row that cannot be mapped to the expected entity. Alternatively you can tell NHibernate to ignore this situation and substitute a null value for the missing association.
You do this by setting the not-found attribute of the many-to-one element to "ignore”. For example:

<many-to-one class="Engineer" column="EngineerID" name="Engineer" not-found="ignore"></many-to-one>