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December 2006 - Posts

• DataSet/DataTable serialization bug with modified row and newline string value

  Recently I ran across an unusual bug in the .NET framework. Our application uses .NET remoting with DataSets, using RemotingFormat = SerializationFormat.Xml (the default in .NET 2.0, and the only option in .NET 1.1). We were getting a DBConcurrencyException Read More... Posted Friday, December 22, 2006 2:05 AM by dnelson | 0 Comments

• "Project location is not trusted", on a local drive

  Dealing with the "project location is not trusted" warning in Visual Studio, when the project in question is on a local drive. Read More... Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 3:26 PM by dnelson | 8 Comments

• catch(Exception)

  Posts from the FxCop blog about catching general exception types generated a lot of controversy. I've posted about a particular comment which I think demonstrates a misunderstanding of what static code analysis "rules" are all about. Read More... Posted Saturday, December 16, 2006 6:03 AM by dnelson | 1 Comments

• Collection Initializers and Duck Typing

  C# 3.0 will include a new language feature called collection initializers. But are the language designers going too far to make the feature usable by previously built classes? Read More... Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:57 PM by dnelson | 3 Comments