http://cahtter.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:48:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Also see: Brad Abrams’ pixel8 Interview Podcast posted I’ve already written the much-delayed blog on Hosting, but I can’t post it yet because it mentions a couple of new Whidbey features, which weren’t present in the PDC bits.  Obviously Microsoft doesn’t want to make product disclosures through my random blog articles. < ... http://cahtter.blogsome.com/2008/03/25/apartments-and-pumping-in-the-clr/ Also see: Debugging an InvalidCastException Jeff Atwood recently posted about natural sorting. This is all about making sure that strings that contain numbers sort numerically. I’m slightly surprised to see that he wants to call it alphabetical sorting. Surely by definition, alphabetical sorting is defined by, well, the alphabet. This is ... http://cahtter.blogsome.com/2008/03/25/natural-sorting-in-c/ Also see: Memory Model My original posts on Finalization and Hosting had some hokey XXXXX markers in place of content, where that content hadn’t already been disclosed in some form.  Now that the Visual Studio 2005 Community Preview is available, I’ve gone back to those two posts and replaced the XXXXX ... http://cahtter.blogsome.com/2008/03/25/updated-finalization-and-hosting/ Also see: Single source code base for Silverlight and WPF solutions Usually I write blog articles on topics that people request via email or comments on other blogs.  Well, nobody has ever asked me to write anything about shutdown. But then I look at all the problems that occur during process shutdown in the unmanaged world.  These ... http://cahtter.blogsome.com/2008/03/24/startup-shutdown-and-related-matters/ Also see: My Presidential Endorsement: Also see: Memory Model Also see: Brad Abrams’ pixel8 Interview Podcast posted If a type can’t be loaded for some reason during a call to Module.GetTypes(), ReflectionTypeLoadException will be thrown. Assembly.GetTypes() also throws this because it calls Module.GetTypes(). The Message for this exception is “One or more exceptions ... http://cahtter.blogsome.com/2008/03/24/reflectiontypeloadexception/ Also see: LINQ - The Uber FindControl Hosting < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  My prior three blogs were supposed to be on Hosting.  Each time I got side tracked, first on Exceptions, then on Application Compatibility and finally on Finalization.  I refuse to be side tracked this time… much.   Also, ... http://cahtter.blogsome.com/2008/03/24/hosting/ When Are Two Algorithms the Same? Andreas Blass, Nachum Dershowitz, Yuri Gurevich. February 2008 People usually regard algorithms as more abstract than the programs that implement them. The natural way to formalize this idea is that algorithms are equivalence classes of programs with respect to a suitable equivalence relation. We argue ... http://cahtter.blogsome.com/2008/03/24/when-are-two-algorithms-the-same/ I just finished the Cross Platform.NET on Silverlight talk at DevWeek. Demos can be downloaded from http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/downloads/DevWeek2008XPlatDemos.zip I’m all done at DevWeek for this year. But if you want to hear more about Silverlight, I’ll be teaching Pluralsight’s Applied Silverlight course in London later this month - running from 31st ... http://cahtter.blogsome.com/2008/03/24/devweek-2008-cross-platform-silverlight-demos/ Also see: Generating WPF Content with LINQ The BitBoards so far have been astoundingly accurate at producing moves. But even after the moves have been produced they have to be fully validated. Take for instance, a bishop in the middle of the board. The number of potential moves for the bishop ... http://cahtter.blogsome.com/2008/03/24/turning-bitboards-from-potential-moves-into-legal-moves-pawn-moves-and-conditional-rules/ Also see: Spring Web Flow features and feedback request I had hoped this article would be on changes to the next version of the CLR which allow it to be hosted inside SQL Server and other “challenging” environments.  This is more generally interesting than you might think, because it creates an opportunity for other processes (i.e. ... http://cahtter.blogsome.com/2008/03/24/the-exception-model/