Possible WPF Bug: Input Field with Invalid Input Not Highlighted On Startup
I am building a WPF demo, and I wanted to include validation. My scenario cannot be simpler: I show a form to create a shipment, and when you click “Save” […]
Hacker’s diary
MessageBoxes and worker threads
This will hopefully become a more organized article with code samples, but I need to record my results for now. Here’s the practical problem I encountered in the application I […]
.NET: Exception stack trace has no frames above the catch point
I never thought about it, but it turns out that exception’s stack trace does not contain the full stack. Instead, it contains only frames between the point where the exception […]
WPF: Merged dictionary parser depends on XML attribute order
Does attribute order in XAML matter? It should not, but sometimes it does. The following XAML compiles, but blows up at runtime with “Item has already been added” exception, both […]
ClickOnce Publisher WTF
Today ClickOnce publisher came up with this message: “The application platform does not match the existing application on the server. Do you want to overwrite it?” What is the platform […]
Database proramming rant
After a long while I am back to dealing with databases directly from ADO.NET. Guys, this is ridiculous. Any serious library designed like that would be heckled. This is what […]
VS 2008 unit test host cannot run tests in one thread
Our UI code is single threaded and UI classes use some shared static data. They work just fine, but the unit tests sometimes fail. Investigation led to threading issues. Visual […]
WPF: Is clone of Freezable frozen?
WPF defines a Freezable type that is a base class for “almost immutable” objects. They can be setup in read/write mode and then “frozen” which makes them immutable and thread […]
Researching XML Serializers for .NET – work in progress
After a little discussion at work on which XML serializer for .NET to use, I decided to do a little research. The candidates were the regular XmlSerializer, the XAML serializer […]
C# Lambdas: Do you know what you captured?
Posted a larger and more structured article on the (somewhat surprising) capture rules for outer variables inside C# lambdas. http://www.ikriv.com/en/prog/info/dotnet/Lambdas.html