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• How to leak memory in .Net - Statics and Event Handlers

  For the past few days I’ve been investigating some memory leak issues in our desktop application. The problem started showing up when we saw that opening new documents and then closing them didn’t have any negative impact on the memory usage. Initial... Posted Aug 03 2007, 12:43 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, General Software Development

• .Net framework hotfix wreaks havoc

  Last week all of us were baffled when suddenly one part of our application that uploads files to a FTP server stopped working. The strange thing was that the same build has been working without any issues for the past one week. We looked at everything... Posted Jul 18 2007, 06:46 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, General Software Development

• Make sure you know what you're fixing

  I’ve been working on this bug for the past one week, basically a call to the GDI+ APIs MeasureString and DrawString was failing with a very useful exception “A generic GDI+ error has occured” , my initial hypotehesis was that the problem was coming because... Posted May 18 2007, 10:13 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, General Software Development

• Notes on the software build process

  The build is the pulse of any software development activity and a good build system facilitates quality software development. My current thoughts on a build process are as follows Build Machine The build machine is a dedicated physical or virtual machine... Posted May 06 2007, 09:45 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Software Development, .Net, Engineering

• NDepend 2.0 released

  Patrick has released version 2.0 of his absolutely cool code analyzer NDepend .The VisualNDepend tool is looking slick and Code Query Lanaguage looks damn interesting. Also be sure to take a look at the metrics that are generated by NDepend, very nice... Posted May 04 2006, 09:44 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, Tools

• Equivalent of sys* tables of SQL Server in Access

  When working with SQL Server it is easy to get access to database metadata like tables, stored procedures etc, by using the sys* tables. I was doing some work with Access and wanted to do something similar, turns out that it is quite easy to do. Basically... Posted May 03 2005, 03:18 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .Net

• ADO.Net connection pooling

  I was reading up on ADO.Net connection pooling yesterday, here is some info that I gathered. The below excrepts are from - Pragmatic ADO.Net (An excellent excellent book on ADO.Net) Connection Pooling Connections are precious commodities, and writing... Posted Mar 23 2005, 11:42 AM by Sijin Joseph with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: .Net

• Notes from Webchat on serialization in .Net

  I had hosted a webchat on serialization in .Net today, will be posting the link to the transcript as soon as it is up. Bascially the areas I discussed were, Runtime serialization and Xml Serialization. Versioning issues, common problems with serialization... Posted Mar 16 2005, 07:40 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with no comments Filed under: .Net

• Load event gets fired on each call to ShowDialog()

  While chasing down one bug in my custom message box at codeproject I came acorss an interesting fact. If you use ShowDialog() to show your form then the Load event gets fired everytime. I've been using Winforms for such a long time and was surprised that... Posted Mar 09 2005, 12:52 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net

• A new approach to Web Forms

  Mike Roberts talks about a new approach to WebForms, he is the author of CruiseControl.Net a continuous integration software for .Net. Extract 'What??' you may cry. 'You've stopped using ASP.NET??' No, I've just stopped using Web Forms . Web Forms are... Posted Feb 24 2005, 11:52 AM by Sijin Joseph with | with no comments Filed under: .Net