I am implementing initialization of some static data properties of a class. The static data properties should be initialized only once. It can be used in multi threaded read scenarios. So the initialization should be thread safe. It looks like...

  Recently, I wrote code for adding seconds to a DateTime instance something like this: DateTime time = DateTime.Now; time.AddSeconds(100); In the first round of unit test, I realize that it is not working correctly. A quick reference...

Most of the functions take some input parameters and it is mostly wise not to trust the caller and do verification of input parameters. Input parameter validation involves checking some constraint for the parameter (like parameter is null or not, parameter...

In my previous post , I described using PowerShell script to correlate ETW events. For large event logs, the overall performance of the script is not very fast. Here is a .Net version of doing ETW event correlation: class ActivityData...

While writing unit tests, we frequently come across the cases where the scenario generates some exception. And we need to test them. Suppose have one SourceClass. It has a method ThrowExceptionIf () which throws ArgumentException exception when the...

Recently, a problem was reported where time taken in each user request was getting increased continuously. It was suspected that this increase is caused by one of our components. The component is instrumented using ETW traces. We had two ETW events...