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Beware when using .NET's named pipes in a windows forms application by FransBouma

Yesterday a user of our .net ORM Profiler tool reported that he couldn't get the snapshot recording from code feature working in a windows forms application. Snapshot recording in code means you start recording profile data from within the profiled application...

Unknown breaking change in .NET 4? by FransBouma

Today I ran into a breaking change in .NET 4 which I couldn't find in the documentation. It's about binding a linq to objects query to a BindingSource's DataSource in winforms. The code works properly in .NET 3.5, but crashes in .NET 4: _firstRelationshipsBindingSource...

Winforms Gotcha: Form.Close() doesn't always call Dispose() by FransBouma

I just ran into a weird issue. During profiling I saw that controls on a form which was already closed were still reacting to events. I checked whether the Dispose() routine of the particular Form was called, but it wasn't. However, the Dispose() routine...

The evil of the Office UI ribbon license by FransBouma

For the next major version of a certain application I'm working on (gee, what might that be ) I'm researching some UI frameworks and techniques. In the past few months I've spend most of my time working on application support library code, language designs...

VS.NET 2008 Beta 2 / .NET 3.5: Windows Forms ComboBox contains nasty bug. by FransBouma

The Windows Forms combobox control contains a nasty a lot of people who will try .NET 2.0 applications on .NET 3.0 will run into: the Sorted property makes comboboxes unable to bind to data: they stay empty. This is particular bad, because any solid working...

.NET 2.0's ToolStripMenuItem are hard to disable... by FransBouma

Say, you have a .NET 2.0 Windows Forms application with one form and on the form one menu strip at the top, you know, very simple. On that menu strip, you have the menu 'Foo' and on that menu you have a menu item 'Bar', which are in .NET...

What!? .NET 2.0 SP1 in 2007? Unacceptable! by FransBouma

Brad Abrams blogs: George asks about SP1 of the .NET Framework 2.0... Again the details have not been 100% worked out, so don’t take this as an official statement, but I expect SP1 of the .NET Framework 2.0 to be at the same time as Orcas .NET Framework...

Collecting event handler / delegate garbage by FransBouma

The .NET's garbage collector (GC) is a wonderful thing: you simply instantiate objects and when they're out of scope and / or no reference is known to those instances, they get cleaned up and you don't have to worry. At least... in most cases. There are...
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My wish-list for the next Visual Studio.NET / .NET api release, part II by FransBouma

I've blogged before about wishes I had for the IDE I use on a daily basis: Visual Studio.NET (currently v2003). Since that blog I've made a new list of new wishes not mentioned in the previous wish-list. I've also included wishes for .NET and the .NET...

Don't try to re-invent the browser, please. by FransBouma

I saw several "Is IE dead?" blogs and most recently DonXML's blog about this subject and I really think this discussion is not focussing on the real issue. What's the problem with current browsers? It's not that they can't render version ABC of a given...
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