PLinq and source IEnumerable thread safety
As I discovered that the source IEnumerable is called by PLINQ from multiple threads, it made me thinking: how can it possibly work? E.g. when someone writes code like this: […]
PLinq's AsParallel() makes concurrent calls to underlying IEnumerable
I am trying to play with PLINQ, and I was wondering, if I have an enumerable that, say, reads lines from a file, or stock prices off Yahoo Finance, would […]
Visual Studio Extensibility
Just write a quick macro for Visual Studio that would replace < with < and > with >, etc. I am probably the 1000th person to do that. Yet, it […]
Android Ice Cream Sandwitch (angry rant)
I got this update several weeks ago on my Motorola Razr, and it still feels bad, very bad. They broke so many things that did not need fixing: 1. Keyboard. […]
Silverlight Clipping Fun
While Silverlight animation performance may be better than WPF, its support for clipping is definitely inferior. First off, there is no ClipToBounds property. If you want your canvas to clip […]
Silverlight Animation Performance
I am an experimenting with a Silverlight port of a WPF control, and find all kinds of funny things about Silverlight. The good news is that Silverlight team seems to […]
PHP, Apache, Localhost and IPv6
The number of moving parts in our systems exceeds the limits of single human’s comprehension by a large margin. It is therefore a miracle anything works at all, and we […]
Cancelling ComboBox Selection in .NET 4
Continuing on a theme of bugs: just added an article about perils of cancelling combo box selection to the web site. Will post it to CodeProject soon. CodeProject
Infragistics XamDataGrid (rant)
Just finished writing a piece of code that would save and restore grid field positions and widths. Yes, I know they have a function for that, but it saves and […]
Visual Studio Live Conference Wrap Up
Besides what I described before, I also attended sessions on WCF 4.5 and Visual Studio debugging. Changes in WCF 4.5 are relatively minor, the biggest one being support for server-side […]