Database proramming rant
After a long while I am back to dealing with databases directly from ADO.NET. Guys, this is ridiculous. Any serious library designed like that would be heckled. This is what […]
VS 2008 unit test host cannot run tests in one thread
Our UI code is single threaded and UI classes use some shared static data. They work just fine, but the unit tests sometimes fail. Investigation led to threading issues. Visual […]
WPF: Is clone of Freezable frozen?
WPF defines a Freezable type that is a base class for “almost immutable” objects. They can be setup in read/write mode and then “frozen” which makes them immutable and thread […]
XSLT and Microsoft.NET
While working on XML serializers I wandered into the XSLT land. It turned out that XSLT support in .NET is not stellar. Well, you may already know that, but it […]
Researching XML Serializers for .NET – work in progress
After a little discussion at work on which XML serializer for .NET to use, I decided to do a little research. The candidates were the regular XmlSerializer, the XAML serializer […]
C# Lambdas: Do you know what you captured?
Posted a larger and more structured article on the (somewhat surprising) capture rules for outer variables inside C# lambdas. http://www.ikriv.com/en/prog/info/dotnet/Lambdas.html
Custom build step on file
BTW, in earlier versions of Visual Studio (definitely VC++ 6, but maybe later) it was possible to add an arbitrary custom compilation step for a file, that worked just fine […]
T4 – Too Troublesome to Tackle?
Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) is a code generator built into Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Yes, you have it now on your machine 🙂 It was proposed to me […]
C#: Trouble with Lambdas in For Loops
I had an interesting bug the other day. I wrote a foreach loop along these lines: foreach (var entry in controlsByName) { entry.Key.SomeEvent += (sender,args)=>{ProcessControlName(entry.Value);} } Looks innocent enough, […]
Lost your thumbnails? Refresh Windows Components
For real. When you install a program that associates itself with image files, you may lose your thumbnails capability in Windows XP. It shows a giant icon of the program […]