May 2005 - Posts

• Trivial debugging note - what catch(…) can’t catch

  One day I was debugging a problem where a Waston dialog popped up on a process. What surprised me was that on the stack where Waston was triggered, there was a unmanaged C++ function with a try-catch(…) block. To my understanding, this block should catch Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 31, 2005 2:22 PM by yunjin | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET programming gotcha and debugging tips

• Figure out variable lifetime using SOS

  There is a bug in this program below, try to see if you could catch it. Test.cs (compiled to DelegateExample.exe): using System; using System.Threading; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; class Test { delegate uint ThreadProc (IntPtr arg); private Read More... Posted Sunday, May 15, 2005 1:06 AM by yunjin | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET programming gotcha and debugging tips, CLR internal and Misc

• Thread safety of Timer callbacks

  I didn't realize I've stopped blogging for 1 year. What a shame! Fortunately I didn’t waste the time: we ship Whidbey Beta1 and Beta2 in the past year! Now with Beta2 out of door, I have more spare time for blogging. :) Today I want to talk about some Read More... Posted Sunday, May 08, 2005 2:12 AM by yunjin | 5 Comments Filed under: Rotor code explanation, .NET programming gotcha and debugging tips, CLR internal and Misc