Technical decisions in software engineering are often driven by politics. The architecture committee decides that “all new code should use threading library X” or “we should be moving to using […]
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 […]
Our WPF started to hang when opening certain window, and debugging revealed an InvalidOperationException with this mysterious message. After some digging I found that we had code along the lines […]
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 […]
The default git merge is usually all you need, but if you have to deep deeper, you’ll find that git merge command has very weird looking and confusing options. I […]
One large company that shall remain nameless runs a 4-year old version of Git, TortoiseGit, and a lot of other tools, and can’t upgrade. Being a large company, it can’t […]
StartCom certificate authority that hands out free SSL certificates, is no longer recognized by major browsers. I’ve got their certificate back in May 2016, and it worked fine, but in […]
Nuget Package Manager 3.4.4 for Visual Studio 2015 does not work with our local NuGet server. Apparently, they broke something compared to version 3.3.0, some redirect or whatever. New client […]
As part of one of my projects I needed to use Microsoft DIA SDK. In particular, I wanted to retrieve source files checksums stored in PDB files. DIA SDK is a […]
Resharper almost keeps class methods in order, but it puts everything with a [DispId] attribute in front. Teleric JustDecompile seems to sort things in alphabetical order. Neither seems to have […]
