DotNetCore App on Ubuntu: you need libunwind8
DotNetCore provides two types of installs: framework-dependent install and self-contained install. I tried to compile a hello-world app on Windows and run it on Ubuntu that has neither dotnetcore SDK […]
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Historical Roots of Political Anti-Patterns in Software Development
Technical decisions in software engineering are often driven by politics. The architecture committee decides that “all new code should use threading library X” or “we should be moving to using […]
TaskTimer: how to execute task on a timer
Over the week-end I created the TaskTimer class that allows to execute code on timer in an async method: static async Task DoStuffOnTimer() { using (var timer = new TaskTimer(1000).Start()) { foreach (var task in timer) { await task; DoStuff(); } } } Source […]
‘DoubleUpDown’ TargetType does not match type of element ‘DoubleUpDown’
Our WPF started to hang when opening certain window, and debugging revealed an InvalidOperationException with this mysterious message. After some digging I found that we had code along the lines […]
Does that source match the binary? Part 2
I wrote a tool called “IsItMySource” that can list source files of a binary and, more importantly, check whether particular source directory matches the binary. The description is here: https://www.ikriv.com/dev/dotnet/IsItMySource/index.php. The […]
The confusing world of Git merge options
The default git merge is usually all you need, but if you have to deep deeper, you’ll find that git merge command has very weird looking and confusing options. I […]
How to paint yourself into a corner with custom modifications
One large company that shall remain nameless runs a 4-year old version of Git, TortoiseGit, and a lot of other tools, and can’t upgrade. Being a large company, it can’t […]
StartCom free SSL certificates go bust
StartCom certificate authority that hands out free SSL certificates, is no longer recognized by major browsers. I’ve got their certificate back in May 2016, and it worked fine, but in […]
NuGet 3.4.4 does not work with local NuGet server
Nuget Package Manager 3.4.4 for Visual Studio 2015 does not work with our local NuGet server. Apparently, they broke something compared to version 3.3.0, some redirect or whatever. New client […]
Calling non-automation compatible COM objects from .NET
As part of one of my projects I needed to use Microsoft DIA SDK. In particular, I wanted to retrieve source files checksums stored in PDB files. DIA SDK is a […]