Managed SpaceJason Whittington's Radio WeblogParody- March 26, 2003 Posted a "hotel yorba" parody in "Fun Stuff" today. (I wrote it yesterday).http://staff.develop.com/jasonw/weblog/2003/03/26.html#a165 New C language features- March 26, 2003 People have been been asking me about this so... NEW C LANGUAGE FEATURES. At OOPSLA late last year, the C team made a splash by announcing some of the features they'll be adding to the compiler in the next next version of C (not Everett). This link has that presentation as well as a very nice white paper discussing the new features in detail. sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer Newshttp://staff.develop.com/jasonw/weblog/2003/03/26.html#a164 Thread.Abort() + finally == scary- March 26, 2003 Saw an interesting post on the DOTNET-LANGUAGE-DEVS list today that mentioned "interesting" behavior with Thread.Abort(). Calling this function raises an exception in the thread object, which the thread normally can handle prior to shutting down. Nice and clean. Joe Marshal pointed out a somewhat nasty little race condition, however - if the call to Abort comes out while the thread is executing a finally block the finally block is abandoned (!). I whipped up this little...http://staff.develop.com/jasonw/weblog/2003/03/26.html#a163 CodeDom needs help.- March 4, 2003 So a few weeks ago I got an idea to write a little helper shim that would make it easier to pass a parameter into a managed thread proc (the ThreadStart delegate type doesn't accept parameters). What I ultimately decided was to write a little wrapper class that took an object array as parms to Start() and passed them to a thread object held internally. The wrapper class "ThreadEx" would behave just like Thread, except that it would take that extra parameter to Start. Then I...http://staff.develop.com/jasonw/weblog/2003/03/04.html#a162 Cool hack from CraigBlog- March 4, 2003 I've been struggling with running as a non-admin ever since I took the plunge. I, quite frankly, hate it. Lots of little things don't work right, and it's a pain to have to figure out what's wrong just because someone decided to write to the HKLM in the registry or drop data in program files. Well today I figured out something that will save me a lot of pain. Running a command prompt as admin lets me do some stuff, but I've found that installs in particular tend to take a real login to work...http://staff.develop.com/jasonw/weblog/2003/03/04.html#a161 |