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Weak Event Target References

The exercise discussed in the .Net Memory Leaks post lead to the identification of a class of memory leak issues in the application being profiled.

July 25, 2006

.NET Memory Leaks

Conceptually I knew that eventually there would be a need to diagnose a memory leak problem in a .NET application. Sure a garbage collected environment automatically sorts out whole sets of memory...

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July 18, 2006

Shut the ding up

By default in Windows Forms a single line text box will sound an annoying ding/bell when the user presses the Enter key. Presumably this is suppose to inform the user that they shouldn't need to...

July 14, 2006

Xwin32 MacroView Fonts

If you are using V7+ of the Xwin32 package, then there is the potential to get weird characters on your MacroView X window displays. See the box characters in the xfontsel screen capture below.

July 13, 2006

ADSL2+

ADSL2+ is finally available at my local exchange. I've been watching the other exchanges in the Perth area get switched over to ADSL2+ from ADSL over the last year.

July 7, 2006

Task Bar Positioning

Ayende Rahien has a post on multi tasking and real estate and asks the question: How does your taskbar look at the moment?

July 6, 2006