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++ […]
In my current capacity I sometimes descend into the virtually forgotten depths of C++ desktop programming. One interesting problem I needed to solve is how to get notified about a […]
My Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX suddenly started eating the battery much faster than it did just a couple of days ago. I went to System Settings->Battery and discovered that the […]
I have just got a new laptop: it comes with Windows 8, but it does not have a touch screen. So, naturally, I am throwing out Windows 8 and replacing […]
The fun started Saturday morning, when I found a brown box by my door with a new cable modem in it. The paper inside the box said something like “install […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
