September 2005 - Posts

• New VS feature allows VS to crash!

  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 Read More... Posted Friday, September 16, 2005 10:39 AM by benwu | 3 Comments

• Fixing Window leaks and "Class Already Registered" errors

  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 Read More... Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:44 AM by benwu | 2 Comments