CodeProject Simply put, async and LINQ don’t coexist very well. With “async all the way” approach, LINQ queries have to be unwound back into loops. Frankly, that’s a shame. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16866331/convert-async-loop-to-linq-query
CodeProject We have recently been fighting a weird problem in our .NET application that was caused by a duplicate WM_KEYDOWN message. It relatively is easy to figure out who receives […]
We just ran into a very funny story with UNICODE identifiers in C#. It turned out that an identifier like ХTranfer was spelled with Russian letter Х (U+0425) instead of […]
Long, very technical story, interesting only to Windows Store programmers. Recording this mostly to document the experience. Scenario 1. We have a universal app that contains a Windows Store and […]
async methods are not executed asynchronously: see Async/await FAQ, Does using the “async” keyword on a method force all invocations of that method to be asynchronous?). await task is not […]
Let’s say I have this code (C#): void SomeFunc() { HandlerOne(); HandlerTwo(); } async void HandlerOne() { DoX(); await DoYAsync(); DoZ(); } In this case HandlerOne() will return to the […]
Story in a nutshell: I wanted to copy a huge Azure blob from one place to another. Since there are no convenient Azure management tools from Microsoft*, I used command […]
I was recently tasked with creating a Windows Store (Metro, WinRT) version of an existing app. This is my first WinRT project. Documenting my experience so far: 1. So called […]
