Aaron Lerch

The most useful .NET tool ever created. Ever. For all time.
Scott Hanselman has a great rundown of it.

I’ve uploaded some bug-fixed versions of my Lerch.X10 library. Thanks to “Muot” and Shaun for pointing out two AOI (”Areas of Improvement”) — to put it nicely.
The first fix was to remove the hard-coded “COM1″ port reference from the controller factory. That’s what happens when I leave in some “test” code. The […]

A day or so ago I ran across a very frustrating bug that I feel compelled to post here to potentially save someone else the pain I went through.
Here’s the scenario:

Install one of our legacy Win32 applications
Install IE7
Open the help–we use HTML Help (.chm files)
Everything’s working great!
Accept updates from the server (we have a custom […]

In Scott Hanselman’s recent Hanselminutes podcast with Chris Sells, he bemoaned the fact that in .NET you can’t just query the keyboard state to say “is this key pressed right now?” Chris answered that you can do it, but that he’d have to look it up to get the exact reference. I got […]

I found a few good links from the blogosphere today:
A .NET RSS implementation. It may conform to the spec, but I don’t think it’s created to handle reading other people’s crappy (read: incorrect) RSS feeds well.
Partake in a WPF contest – Might be a good way to dive in and start learning the technology.
Jack Gudenkauf […]

I’m sure that this is a well known resource to all by now, but in case someone out there doesn’t know, IDesign has some fantastic free downloads of code/design samples for C#/WCF.

I’m going to have to set aside some time to read through these articles. The singleton article has been a good reference for me already.

A co-worker just asked me why the following code (I’ve “samplized” it) ended up with an array of correct size, but with null values:
private static SingletonClass singleton = new SingletonClass();

private static readonly string FIRST_VALUE = “First Value”;
private static readonly string SECOND_VALUE = “Second Value”;
private static readonly string THIRD_VALUE = “Third Value”;

private ArrayList arrayList = new […]

In Part 1 I posted a sort of “set up” for today’s post. I presented a data structure (WAVEFORMATEX) that doesn’t fit into the “automatic” marshaling paradigm due to it’s dynamic size. The solution is to create a custom marshaling class that implements ICustomMarshaler and perform the marshaling from managed to native (and vice versa) […]

A while ago I posted about having a difficult time with complex marshaling. What I didn’t post, however, was any details about the solution–and now that the topic of custom marshaling has become the bane of a few co-worker’s existences, I figured I’d post some details.
Here’s the problem. You have a struct (for example, the […]