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 […]
Hacker’s diary
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 […]
NAnt null property issue
OK, I filed it. Let’s see what happens now.
NAnt: Does null really exist?
Stumbled upon an interesting situation in NAnt, which may inspire some philosophical thought on what “to exist” really means. We run a NAnt build script from our program and set […]
Is Turkish the only locale with unusual capitalization?
It is well known in some circles that Turkish locale has unusual capitalization rules that may break otherwise solid code (e.g. see here: “Turkish Java Needs Special Brewing“). In a […]
How to filter modifications in CruiseControl.NET
I had the following problem: my project wsa configured for continuous integration with CruiseControl.NET. It shares source control tree with some frequently updated scripts that are not really related to […]
In GAC we Trust
I am writing a plugin-hosting WPF application. For variety of reasons I have to put plugin-ins into their own app domains. To name just a few: – plugin unload is […]