David Anderson is a software engineer with expertise in C#, .NET and other Microsoft technologies, and this is his blog.
I have always been pretty articulate and careful when writing multi-threading code, but today I wrote my first deadlock that had me baffled for a few minutes. I’m working on a licensing dll that handles a lot of processing, and…
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This isn’t anything special, but the documentation on Msdn for System.Windows.SplashScreen is lacking. Basically I am writing a licensing system and during debugging the WPF stack can take many seconds to load. When making changes to this system sometimes it…
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If you have ever added a resource file to your project through the Project Properties > Resources tab, then you have used a ResourceManager. The resource manager allows you to access resources in your application simply through a static resource…
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This question was asked on StackOverflow. Because my answer was upvoted well, I decided include it as a blog post. First, let’s talk about what ToString actually is. The ToString method lives in System.Object, and because System.Object is the base…
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Overview. The goal of this article is to explain the mechanisms of passing structures and classes around in code. It will cover areas such as what it means to pass by value, pass by reference, as well as the unique…
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I just finished my activation system which is just a WCF service, finished all the unit tests and ensured they passed and met requirements. Now its time to make a test client, so I load up Visual Studio and start…
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I just finished writing the technical whitepapers for my product activation service, so I started the actual implementation using WCF services. All was good, added the usual WCF Service Application project, ran a quick F5, and swapped out all the…
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Simple enough. If you want to ensure exact order translate the local variable function Func(Of double,double,double,Tuple(Of double,double)) to an actual member function or static function.
I’m going to cover a easy example on the new asynchronous programming model in C# 5 and .NET 4.5 with the recent release of Visual Studio 11. The example we will be writing is a small WinForm that will calculate…
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I am definitely posting about this, because it annoyed the living crud out of me. If you are like me, you often have heavily modified your Visual Studio settings to your likings. This includes environment settings, user settings, and the…
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