.NET: no trace TextWriter…
I wanted to create a logger that writes either to a file, or to the System.Diagnostics.Trace. To my astonishment, I found that .NET class library does not have a TextWriter […]
Unmanaged Hosting API Gotcha
I was playing with .NET 2.0 unmanaged hosting API. I am trying to customize assembly loading and “fix” some assemblies on the fly. I found an interesting gotcha, that I […]
.NET Assembly Format: Too Tight?
I am playing with the binary format of .NET assemblies, described here. .NET metadata is stored inside regular Windows executable PE file. I explored PE file format in detail when […]
Framework Design Guidelines Book – Part III
This is part three of the series. Type Design (continued…) p 89: Struct design: DO ensure that a state where all instance data is set to zero … is valid. […]
Framework Design Guidelines Book – Part II, Interfaces vs. Abstract Classes
This is a second portion of my comments on the “Framework Design Guidelines” book. See also Part I. This post is devoted to the following recommendation we find on page […]
Framework Design Guidelines Book
It’s been a long time – New Year, small vacation, etc… Getting back to the blog. By the recommendation of my colleagues I took the Framework Design Guidelines book in […]
Added an article on Rhino Mocks and remoting proxy
Here is the link
Mysterious Hang article updated
The Mysterious Hang article has been updated. Prompted by an e-mail from a reader, I added a paragraph on how to solve the problem.
I can't believe ToolStripItem.MergeIndex is an absolute position…
I was working with some integration project where menus of the shell and a plugin are merged a-la MDI. Both menus are ToolStrips. We used ToolStripManager.Merge() to merge them. It […]
Post from work…
Trying it from work. The website is somewhat slow today. I wonder what may have caused it…