This kind of thing has happened to be a few times now, so I thought I’d share the fun.
In one of our pieces of software we have a process that looks like this:
void MyThread()
{
while (true)
{
DoFunctionA();
[…]
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Working on an MFC app that has just been converted to Unicode (finally!), I noticed that one button (which is created dynamically) is too small to fit the text in Korean (and Russian and a few other languages).
The code was calling something like:
CSize sz = m_btAdjustColors.GetDC()->GetTextExtent(sCaption);
It seems correct, but these script languages are throwing it […]
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This is an issue I run into constantly at my job.
Frank Kelly wrote up a good summary of some items. They’re simple, easy to understand, easy to follow, even for non-programmers.
In fact, I’m sending this link out to everyone in my group here at work.
Technorati Tags: testing,programming,bug reporting
Tags: bugs, Links/News, programming, self-improvement, teams, […]
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The importance of measuring performance changes is a topic that has been covered by others smarter and more experienced than me, but I have a recent simple tale.
I’ve simplified the code quite a bit in order to demonstrate the issue. Suppose I have a wrapper around an image (it has many more attributes):
[…]
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This is really simple and probably common, but it’s a useful tip anyway.
Say you need to set a form’s cursor to the wait cursor while you accomplish something.
You would do something like this:
this.Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor;
//do something
this.Cursor = Cursors.Default;
Of course, what if “do something” throws an exception? Then your cursor won’t be set back to the […]
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Lutz Roeder’s .Net Reflector has been discussed on many blogs before, but I want to give it an additional plug. I recently had to emulate some C# serial-port code in our C++ app. The .Net SerialPort class is great, easy-to-use, and works well. Unfortunately, we’re using a C++ serial port library that does not support […]
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Getting a weird COM Exception with the cryptic ID 0×8055001E?
We’ve been struggling with this problem for over a year now, and we finally have a solution.
We have some critical code that is contacting Exchange server via COM Interop and CDOEX.DLL to read some inboxes and process e-mails. About once a month or so, we get […]
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In C#, If you need to unit test a class that fires an event in certain circumstances (perhaps even asynchronously), you need to handle a little more than just running some code and doing the assertion. You have to make sure your unit test waits for the event to be fired. Here’s one naive way […]
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I made some minor updates to DiskSlicer. Mostly, some minor bug fixes, but also I added the much-requested ability to delete files directly from the program.
Go get it and enjoy!
Tags: software, storage
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If you upgraded a project from .Net 1.0/1.1 to .Net 2.0, and it used application configuration files, you will soon come across the compiler warning message
‘System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings’ is obsolete: ‘This method is obsolete, it has been replaced by System.Configuration!System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings’
You have to add a reference to the System.Configuration assembly, but once you do, you can just […]
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