This is the tenth part of the .NET Inside Out series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Virtual and non-virtual calls in C# If you are interested in the topic see the…
One of the most irritating thing in Windows is no way to prevent an application from stealing focus. There are multiple questions on Stack Overflow regarding the issue, there are rumors that Microsoft wanted to do something but they cannot detect it reliably.…
We know that to compare floating point values we should use epsilon and not just compare bits. We may run into similar issues when comparing BigDecimal in Java:
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What is the output? Of course it is false, otherwise I wouldn’t write this…
This is the twelfth part of the Custom memory allocation series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 — Allocating object on a stack We already know how to allocate memory anywhere on the…
Recently I had to modify an existing Android application for which I didn’t have a source code, only APK file. This may sound like an impossible task but actually it is pretty easy (very tedious, though). I didn’t want to use any compilers…
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