Hacker’s diary

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“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black” H. Ford Trying to figure out how scoped region managers would work […]

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Just created a Visual Studio Add-in using the wizard. The source files created by the wizard turned out to be UTF-16. The files I create manually are UTF-8. It is […]

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As certain other “highly integrated” Microsoft technologies, entity framework seems to be high maintenance when it comes to refactoring and moving things around. To move an .emdx file from one […]

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In C# code you can write something like decimal d = 1e-10m; However, decimal.Parse(“1e-10”) throws an exception: “System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format”. Not cool.

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Popular belief (reinforced indirectly by MSDN) is that BackgroundWorker class will marshal the “progress” and “completed” events back to the calling thread. This turned out to be most certainly not […]

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Time and time again I am burnt by the same bug. There are two kinds of enumerables in .NET: enumerators and generators. Enumerators go over some collection and return its […]

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The scenario is: someone opens an SSL connection to the Apache server, authenticates himself, and requests access to another host/port via CONNECT command. This is good for secure connection via […]