MessageBoxes and worker threads
This will hopefully become a more organized article with code samples, but I need to record my results for now. Here’s the practical problem I encountered in the application I […]
CSV: Carelessly Saved Values
I currently work with some numeric methods that accept large quantities of data as inputs. Normally the input comes from a database. As I was writing the tests, I needed […]
.NET: Exception stack trace has no frames above the catch point
I never thought about it, but it turns out that exception’s stack trace does not contain the full stack. Instead, it contains only frames between the point where the exception […]
RedGate SQL Source Control
Another tool I tried today. The idea is very cool, but I don’t like the fact that after I “link” the database I suddenly get gazillion changes to commit. I […]
RedGate SQL Compare
As per this survey, RedGate SQL Compare is one of the best SQL comparison tools on the market. I downloaded a trial today. It works fast, produces safe synchronization scripts […]
Some anti-patterns I am experiencing first hand
I am working on a rather interesting WPF project, which “implements” so many anti-patterns I had to blog about it. The most interesting thing about this project is that it […]
Can’t have a binding to binding
Let’s say we want to display a list of countries, and depending on the user input we want to show either the capital city, population, or the language spoken in […]
WPF: Merged dictionary parser depends on XML attribute order
Does attribute order in XAML matter? It should not, but sometimes it does. The following XAML compiles, but blows up at runtime with “Item has already been added” exception, both […]
ClickOnce Publisher WTF
Today ClickOnce publisher came up with this message: “The application platform does not match the existing application on the server. Do you want to overwrite it?” What is the platform […]
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 […]