NAnt: Does null really exist?
Stumbled upon an interesting situation in NAnt, which may inspire some philosophical thought on what “to exist” really means. We run a NAnt build script from our program and set […]
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 […]
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 […]
Another Example for Object Factory
As one of the commentators correctly pointed out, it does not make much sense to create value objects such as Order via dependency injection, so my previous example was perhaps […]
Object Factory in Unity 2.x
A couple of days ago I spent some time trying to find how to make Unity call a factory method when user requests an object. Then I forgot about it, […]
Binding to an index with space in XAML
If your addiction to data binding in XAML goes as far as to use indexers, eventually you may end up using a string with space (or other special character) as […]
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 […]
Site Downtime Due to Sandy
My web site was down for about 2 days, due to hurricane Sandy. Our town was affected only by strong winds: no major flooding or snow. The only inconvenience I […]