Windows 8 My Brain
A couple of weeks ago I have found time to download release version of Windows 8 from MSDN that was available since August 15th. I installed in a virtual machine […]
Software Development: A Day in The Life (Long)
At times I feel that software development is much, much harder than it should be. Ridiculous crappy annoyances await you on every corner, some of them many years old. We […]
WPF: Beware of zombie animations freezing your properties
I spent some time today trying to understand why my control’s size and/or position would refuse to change. A statement like control.Width = 42; would have absolutely no effect: the […]
Binding does not a dependency property make
In WPF/Silverlight we are all accustomed to writing things like Width=”{Binding foo}” and Text=”{Binding bar}”. The little Binding gremlins then actually access foo or bar property of the current data […]
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 […]