January 16, 2011
Maybe I should write something on it once in a while. Really, a 5 year gap between posts is pretty sad.
December 04, 2005
Step 1: In the Regional Options control panel, change your language to Welsh.
Step 2: Use System.Data.OleDb and watch all hell break loose.
Definitely one of the weirdest bugs I've seen.
Step 2: Use System.Data.OleDb and watch all hell break loose.
Definitely one of the weirdest bugs I've seen.
March 17, 2005
People often ask what the point of attributes is, and how they can be used effectively. I thought I'd talk a bit about one of the ways we use attributes in our apps, and as a bonus give you a few details on our boot process.
A bit of background
In our apps, all of the different components are divided…
A bit of background
In our apps, all of the different components are divided…
March 14, 2005
(Yes, I know, this is supposed to be a .NET-focused journal. But I have to use Java for school, so I think it's ok to sneak in the occasional Java-related post.)
In my never-ending search for a decent Java IDE, I recently decided to install Borland's JBuilder 2005 Foundation. What a mistake that tur…
In my never-ending search for a decent Java IDE, I recently decided to install Borland's JBuilder 2005 Foundation. What a mistake that tur…
February 04, 2005
I found this one yesterday. The bug description went something like this: "Start app. Press a key. App crashes."
D'oh! This one was caused by some weird interactions between our keyboard shortcut handler and our new localization code. Apparently some strings that weren't supposed to be localized wer…
D'oh! This one was caused by some weird interactions between our keyboard shortcut handler and our new localization code. Apparently some strings that weren't supposed to be localized wer…
January 25, 2005
(And how NOT to write performance-oriented apps for .NET)
I recently looked at writing some code to integrate with ACT! 2005. ACT! is a personal information management application along the same lines as MS Outlook or Lotus Notes. When I installed the demo and found that it was a .NET application, I…
I recently looked at writing some code to integrate with ACT! 2005. ACT! is a personal information management application along the same lines as MS Outlook or Lotus Notes. When I installed the demo and found that it was a .NET application, I…
December 15, 2004
Sometimes painfully slow. Changing from Debug to Release mode takes 30-40 seconds (that's just changing the setting in the IDE, not recompiling). I work with reasonably large solutions, but still ... it makes me want a faster computer. And don't get me started on how badly compiling bogs down the I…
October 06, 2004
AxTools CodeSmart 2003 is a pretty cool VS.NET addin that we recently got a site license for at work. I haven't really had a chance to explore all of its features yet, but after a bit of playing it looks like it could be quite useful.
In other news, Outlook 2003 uses some undocumented MAPI propertie…
In other news, Outlook 2003 uses some undocumented MAPI propertie…
September 18, 2004
I was recently bitten by a bug in the .NET framework. Apparently, calling ChannelServices.UnregisterChannel(foo) doesn't actually unregister the channel properly and close the socket. Subsequent attempts to call RegisterChannel() for a socket on the same port fail with an "Only one usage of each so…
September 09, 2004
And here's my first journal entry. I won't be saying much about my personal life in this journal; I plan to keep the posts technical, and focused on topics such as:
-Projects I'm working on at school
-Interesting technial issues I come across at work (I write .NET-based software for corporate VoIP ph…
-Projects I'm working on at school
-Interesting technial issues I come across at work (I write .NET-based software for corporate VoIP ph…
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