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 […]
Hacker’s diary
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 […]
Type resolution in secondary app domain
Here’s the weirdness in a nutshell (more details later). I have a host-plugin situation. The plugin is created in its own app domain. It does not have access to host […]
Retrieve the LoaderException property for more information…
Here’s the exception I received today: System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException. Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information. Isn’t it lovely? Do the authors […]
Windows 8 My Brain
A couple of weeks ago I have found time to download release version of Windows 8 from MSDN that was available since August 15th. I installed in a virtual machine […]
Software Development: A Day in The Life (Long)
At times I feel that software development is much, much harder than it should be. Ridiculous crappy annoyances await you on every corner, some of them many years old. We […]
WPF: Beware of zombie animations freezing your properties
I spent some time today trying to understand why my control’s size and/or position would refuse to change. A statement like control.Width = 42; would have absolutely no effect: the […]
Binding does not a dependency property make
In WPF/Silverlight we are all accustomed to writing things like Width=”{Binding foo}” and Text=”{Binding bar}”. The little Binding gremlins then actually access foo or bar property of the current data […]
PLinq and source IEnumerable thread safety
As I discovered that the source IEnumerable is called by PLINQ from multiple threads, it made me thinking: how can it possibly work? E.g. when someone writes code like this: […]