MZ
After approximately 20 years, I finally found the meaning of ‘MZ’: the string that appears in the beginning of every DOS/Windows/.NET executable. It stands for “Mark Zbikowski“, the architect in […]
Hacker’s diary
Friendly Error Messages
I just accidently gave .EXE extension to a file that was actually a .ZIP archive and tried to run it on Windows 7. What error do I get? Lo and […]
DLL Hell in JQuery Land
I am trying to build a simple web application based on grids. Like, have this widget occupy 1/3 of the screen on bottom, that one one line of large bold […]
How to Send More than 4000 Characters from CLR Stored Proc
I was sending some debug output from my CLR stored procedure via SqlPipe.Send() method, and suddenly I received this exception: System.ArgumentException: Message length 4474 exceeds maximum length supported of 4000. […]
NuGet: How to Install a Package in 19 Easy Steps
If they tell you the machines will outsmart us very soon, don’t believe it. Here’s why. Tonight I was trying to add “Unity” dependency injection framework to my .NET 4 […]
Downloading Oracle Driver for .NET…
feels like I am trying to download a semi-legal DVD-copying software. It starts simple enough: just go to this page. Shows a list of things to download, it does not […]
Silverlight Image control does not support GIFs
Surprise-surprise! WPF: The Image class enables you to load the following image types: .bmp, .gif, .ico, .jpg, .png, .wdp, and .tiff. Silverlight: [Image class] Represents a control that displays an […]
Touches
I wrote a little web page that “debugs” HTML 5 touch interface (requires touch screen device). Unlike regular mouse clicks, there is no “onTouch” attribute, you have to add and […]
ADO.NET: what did you just say?
I need to do some processing when rows are deleted from my DataTable. One would think it should be easy: after all, you have RowDeleting and RowDeleted events, that should […]
MEF: Though Shalt Not LoadFrom
I was preparing for a presentation on MEF, and I stumbled upon this sentence: catalog.Catalogs.Add(new DirectoryCatalog(“C:\\SimpleCalculator\\SimpleCalculator\\Extensions”)); “This absolute path is for debugging purposes only. In a production application, you would […]