Looking back at WPF/Silverlight/WinRT
Last week I had to write a small WPF application, and I was surprised how hard it is to get WPF right. By “right” I mean not just getting the […]
.NET
Thank G-d for StackOverflow
I have just run into a problem: a test passes fine on the CI sever, but breaks on my machine. Reason: it gets a wrong config file. Root cause: when […]
Cannot return JToken from WCF Web Service
This blog entry is mostly for documentation purposes, so I don’t forget what happened. TL;DR: WCF’s DataContractJsonSerializer cannot deal with JToken or JObject. If you attempt to include those in […]
Your options for async LINQ are very limited (c)
CodeProject Simply put, async and LINQ don’t coexist very well. With “async all the way” approach, LINQ queries have to be unwound back into loops. Frankly, that’s a shame. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16866331/convert-async-loop-to-linq-query
Why identifiers with non-English letters are bad for your health
We just ran into a very funny story with UNICODE identifiers in C#. It turned out that an identifier like ХTranfer was spelled with Russian letter Х (U+0425) instead of […]
Windows Store Bundles Blunders
Long, very technical story, interesting only to Windows Store programmers. Recording this mostly to document the experience. Scenario 1. We have a universal app that contains a Windows Store and […]
One more time about Resource vs. EmbeddedResource
In Visual Studio you can set “Build Action” for a project item to ‘Resource’ or ‘Embedded Resource’, among other things. The difference between the two is confusing, and exact up-to-date […]
Capturing unhandled exceptions in a mixed native/CLR environment
Observing Unhandled Exceptions In .NET unhandled exceptions can be observed via AppDomain.UnhandledException event: AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += myHandler; // C# In Win32 unhandled exceptions are observed via SetUnhandledExceptionFilter call: SetUnhandledExceptionFilter(myfilter); // C/C++ […]
Invalid type code in stream 'Invalid'
If you marshal WPF windows between processes, or do any other cross-process remoting, you can get this error on an unpatched .NET Framework 4: Invalid type code in stream ‘Invalid’ […]
Handling Exceptions in Plugins Hosted in an AppDomain
Scenario: You have a shell application that loads plugins. For isolation, each plugin is loaded in its own AppDomain. Question: If plugin causes an exception, how do you prevent it […]