My computer crashed today and would not reboot. I.e. windows starts booting and then says it cannot find c:windowssystem32configsystem file. It suggested to boot from the install CD and use […]
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worseMurphy’s Law I was looking for a backup solution for a new computer with Windows 2008 Server. Naturally, first I […]
I wanted to create a logger that writes either to a file, or to the System.Diagnostics.Trace. To my astonishment, I found that .NET class library does not have a TextWriter […]
I was playing with .NET 2.0 unmanaged hosting API. I am trying to customize assembly loading and “fix” some assemblies on the fly. I found an interesting gotcha, that I […]
I am playing with the binary format of .NET assemblies, described here. .NET metadata is stored inside regular Windows executable PE file. I explored PE file format in detail when […]
I was working with some integration project where menus of the shell and a plugin are merged a-la MDI. Both menus are ToolStrips. We used ToolStripManager.Merge() to merge them. It […]
