Why identifiers with non-English letters are bad for your health
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 […]
Windows Store Bundles Blunders
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/await: to sum it up
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 […]
How "async void" actually works
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 […]
Windows Azure: "user friendly" copy utility
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 […]
Windows Store Apps: Back to DLL Hell
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 […]
MySQL: you get what you're paying for
Long, long time ago in the galaxy not so far away I installed mySql 5.05 on my server. After some time I decided to upgrade to the current version, MySql […]
WPF user controls: do not use merged dictionaries for shared resources
Resource dictionaries in WPF are not shared, unless they are part of App.xaml. That is, if you have a user control that loads (and uses) some resource dictionary, new instance […]
Checksum program that actually works
Often when I download files from the Internet I need to verify the checksum. That is, calculate actual checksum of the file and make sure it matches the expected value. […]
One more time about Resource vs. EmbeddedResource
In Visual Studio you can set “Build Action” for a project item to ‘Resource’ or ‘Embedded Resource’, among other things. The difference between the two is confusing, and exact up-to-date […]