Hacker’s diary

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Coming back from .NET Framework, it feels like Win32 API was invented by some rather cold people with total disregard for the well being of the application programmers. Every other […]

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I have just spent a few fun hours fighting Apache rewrite rules in an .htaccess file. It turns out that temporary redirects just work, but permanent redirects require RewriteBase! Frankly, […]

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Over the week-end I created the TaskTimer class that allows to execute code on timer in an async method: static async Task DoStuffOnTimer() {     using (var timer = new TaskTimer(1000).Start())     {         foreach (var task in timer)         {             await task;             DoStuff();         }     } } Source […]

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I wrote a tool called “IsItMySource” that can list source files of a binary and, more importantly, check whether particular source directory matches the binary. The description is here: https://www.ikriv.com/dev/dotnet/IsItMySource/index.php. The […]

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This is a short summary of differences between WCF and .NET Remoting when they are used to control a Windows service. Complete article is found here: http://www.ikriv.com/dev/dotnet/AspNetCallsWinService/index.php. Complete code examples for WCF and Remoting are […]

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It makes things so simple, I really wish other languages had it. Today in five or six places I wrote something like _innerObject?.Dispose(); instead of if (_innerObject != null) _innerObject.Dispose(); […]