New VS feature allows VS to crash!- September 15, 2005 One of the newer "features" in Visual Studio 8.0 is the ability for us to collect better information about exceptions that are thrown in VS. When an exception is thrown (and unhandled), VS will generate a Watson report that will send microsoft a minidump where the exception occurred. Once we get this watson report, its easier now for us to locate the exact cause and issue a fix. Of course, a side effect of this is that unhandled exceptions will bring down VS and may cause loss of...http://blogs.msdn.com/benwu/archive/2005/09/16/467971.aspx Fixing Window leaks and "Class Already Registered" errors- September 14, 2005 Windows Forms makes it very easy to create a rich UI experience. But it also makes it easy to leak windows or resources. For example, say you create a new temporary AppDomain and decide to show some UI in it. If you close the AppDomain without cleaning up the windows (ie call Dispose on the Controls or close the windows via the UI), then the windows will be orphaned and will not be cleaned up properly. It is also easy to create new threads with UI. However, if you shut down...http://blogs.msdn.com/benwu/archive/2005/09/15/466417.aspx |