A lot of people have asked me over the years how various kinds of event binding work. Basically, event binding works like this: 1) Someone clicks on a button, 2) then a miracle happens, and... 3) the button's event handlers execute. It's that second step that people struggle with. ...

This is the new home of Eric Lippert's Fabulous Adventures In Coding. Eventually the content from http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/ericli will be moved over here

A number of people have pointed out to me over the last few months that this blog server is a little flaky.   There are occasionally "out of memory" errors and other failures reported, sometimes my posts fail to actually propagate to the server...

What happens when you assign a hard-typed CLR array to a variable annotated with a different CLR array type?...

I just wrote in a comment to my previous entry, "The ability to rate one's knowledge of a subject accurately is strongly correlated with one's knowledge." Wait a minute. "One's"???...

Occasionally I interview C++ developers. I'm always interested in how people rate themselves, so I'll occasionally ask a candidate, "On a scale from one to ten, how do you rate your C++ skills?"...

I hope all you readers living in the United States had a restful and enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday. I sure did. I've been meaning to talk a bit about some of the performance issues you run into when tuning massively multi-threaded applications, like...