WCF vs .NET Remoting

Remoting is about distributed objects, while WCF is about services. Remoting is capable of passing object instances between the client and the server, WCF is not. This distinction is much […]
Remoting is about distributed objects, while WCF is about services. Remoting is capable of passing object instances between the client and the server, WCF is not. This distinction is much […]
In the last month or so I realized that I am having difficulty using GMail. I could not put my finger on it, until it hit me: look at the […]
After upgrading to a newer version of Unity, we found that our process began to fail with StackOverflowException. Investigation showed that it happened because the following registration behaves differently depending […]
This Friday I wrote a unit test and to my astonishment I have found that “a” < “A” < “ab”, with .NETÂ InvariantCulture and InvariantCultureIgnoreCase string comparers. That means that .NET […]
HTML entities are taking over. Here’s what I saw today in our local Target:
I was testing various sorting algorithms, so I had a base class that SortTestBase that contained actual tests and accepted the algorithm in the constructor, and derived classes that supplied […]
I heard all the buzz about 3D Earth view in Google Maps, but it did not work in my Chrome browser at home. I initially thought Google is doing some […]
A few days ago I ran into a situation when I forgot to add –no-ff when merging a feature branch into master. The result was a mess. State before the […]
If you wish to access standard input and output in your WPF app, you will have to compile it as a Console app and fire up the WPF application object […]
I have just spent a few fun hours fighting Apache rewrite rules in an .htaccess file. It turns out that temporary redirects just work, but permanent redirects require RewriteBase! Frankly, […]