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I haven't blogged for a long time because I'm busy working on an exciting new project. It's too early to tell you more. I'll provide details in a few months. Meanwhile, I wanted to write a quick post to share an excellent offer with you. It's that time...
When coding applications using design patterns such as MVP (Model-View-Presenter) or MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel), you'll find yourself using data binding and the INotifyPropertyChanged interface all over the place. This means referencing properties quite...
If you need to sign a piece of code - eg. a Silverlight application, like I did with Sesame , an EXE, a DLL, an AIR application, a JAR applet - you need a code signing certificate. A code signing certificate must be bought from a certificate authority...
As a follow-up to my post about Visual Studio Pro Power Tools , I advise you to take a look at the following post from the VS team: Document Well 2010 Plus: Hidden Options . It provides great options for further improving the appearance of tabs in Visual...
After seven years with webhost4life , it was time to move on. Especially because of all the troubles with webhost4life due to their internal migration to a new hosting environment (the company has been bought out). I've just moved all my websites elsewhere...
When I finalized my article about memory leaks , I removed a part about Infragistics NetAdvantage. Here it is. It may be useful to some of you. Warning: It's based on NetAdvantage 7.3, and may or may not apply to recent versions. Let's take an example...
My new article, which I've been preparing over the last few months, is now available. It's about memory and resources leaks in .NET . You'll find it in English on MSDN and in French on my site . It's also available in PDF in English and in French . Here...
Ten years ago, I played with OLE Automation so we can write things such as the following, where Document represents an XML document: String name = Document.Bookstore.Book[1].Author.LastName; Document.Bookstore.Book[1].Author.LastName = "NewName"; The...
Given my own experience, I'd say that events are the main source of leaks in .NET. They deserve double- and even triple-checks. Each time you add a subscription to an event in your code, most likely with +=, you should worry about the consequences and...
"Error creating window handle" When a big Windows Forms application I'm working on for a client is used actively, users often get "Error creating window handle" exceptions. Aside from the fact that the application consumes too much resources, which is...
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