Here’s the exception I received today: System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException. Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information. Isn’t it lovely? Do the authors […]
My web site was down for about 2 days, due to hurricane Sandy. Our town was affected only by strong winds: no major flooding or snow. The only inconvenience I […]
A couple of weeks ago I have found time to download release version of Windows 8 from MSDN that was available since August 15th. I installed in a virtual machine […]
At times I feel that software development is much, much harder than it should be. Ridiculous crappy annoyances await you on every corner, some of them many years old. We […]
I spent some time today trying to understand why my control’s size and/or position would refuse to change. A statement like control.Width = 42; would have absolutely no effect: the […]
In WPF/Silverlight we are all accustomed to writing things like Width=”{Binding foo}” and Text=”{Binding bar}”. The little Binding gremlins then actually access foo or bar property of the current data […]
As I discovered that the source IEnumerable is called by PLINQ from multiple threads, it made me thinking: how can it possibly work? E.g. when someone writes code like this: […]
I am trying to play with PLINQ, and I was wondering, if I have an enumerable that, say, reads lines from a file, or stock prices off Yahoo Finance, would […]
Just write a quick macro for Visual Studio that would replace < with < and > with >, etc. I am probably the 1000th person to do that. Yet, it […]
I got this update several weeks ago on my Motorola Razr, and it still feels bad, very bad. They broke so many things that did not need fixing: 1. Keyboard. […]
