WPF: Default style is not applied when it's the only app resource
I encountered something that looks like a weird WPF bug. Default style will not be applied to controls if both of following conditions are true: 1. The style is the […]
Hacker’s diary
Prism Regions and Nested Tab Controls
It is official: Prism regions don’t work for a tab control inside a tab control. The reason is described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8592802/tabcontrol-within-tabitem. Simply put, there is only one instance of the […]
Prism 2.x Weirdness
“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black” H. Ford Trying to figure out how scoped region managers would work […]
Perforce + Unicode = Eplic Fail
Just created a Visual Studio Add-in using the wizard. The source files created by the wizard turned out to be UTF-16. The files I create manually are UTF-8. It is […]
Playing with Entity Framework
As certain other “highly integrated” Microsoft technologies, entity framework seems to be high maintenance when it comes to refactoring and moving things around. To move an .emdx file from one […]
C# decimal.Parse() won't parse 1e-10
In C# code you can write something like decimal d = 1e-10m; However, decimal.Parse(“1e-10”) throws an exception: “System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format”. Not cool.
BackgroundWorker and UI threads
Popular belief (reinforced indirectly by MSDN) is that BackgroundWorker class will marshal the “progress” and “completed” events back to the calling thread. This turned out to be most certainly not […]
How to design systems so you can waste your time debugging
A couple of days ago I spent several hours thanks to these two little design quirks. Quirk #1. Deadlock prone protocol design. Our program uses two client-server protocols. Let’s call […]
IEnumerable: lazy and dangerous
Time and time again I am burnt by the same bug. There are two kinds of enumerables in .NET: enumerators and generators. Enumerators go over some collection and return its […]
Apache 2.2.17: HTTPS+CONNECT still broken
The scenario is: someone opens an SSL connection to the Apache server, authenticates himself, and requests access to another host/port via CONNECT command. This is good for secure connection via […]