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The File System is unpredictable
One of the more frequent questions I answer on StackOverflow is a variation of the following.  I’m doing XXX with a file, how can I know if the file exists? The variations include verify no one else has the file open, if the file is in use, the file Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 10, 2009 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 11 Comments

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NotImplementedException vs. NotSupportedException
In responding to a recent blog post , one of the readers, Jeremy Gray, noted that I was using a NotImplementedException where I should have been using a NotSupportedException .  At first I did not agree.  There was a method on an interface which Read More...

Posted Friday, December 12, 2008 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 5 Comments

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When can you catch a StackOverflowException?
Answer: When you're the one who threw it.  Starting with the CLR version 2.0, the policy for handling a StackOverflowException was changed.  User code can no longer handle the exception[1].  Instead the CLR will simply terminate the process.  Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

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