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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