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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 heap but if you think that it solves all problems with GC … Continue reading Custom memory allocation in C# Part 12 — Hiding objects from GC
Today something supposedly very simple. How to run On Screen Keyboard from C#? Easy enough you say and type the following code: And then you compile it as Any CPU, run on Windows 10 x64 and you get the following error: What happens? It looks like 32 bit osk.exe is broken in Windows 10 x64 … Continue reading Running On Screen Keyboard in Windows 10 in C#
This is the twelfth part of the .NET Internals Cookbook series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 0 – Table of contents 82. What is a bit-mapped attribute? Custom attribute? Pseudo-custom attribute? There are three types of attributes: Bit-mapped — for instance public Custom — the … Continue reading .NET Internals Cookbook Part 12 — Memory structure, attributes, handles
This is the eleventh part of the .NET Internals Cookbook series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 0 – Table of contents 75. What is the TimeSpan resolution? It’s 100 nanoseconds, as specified by the documentation: 76. What is shared between app domains? Quite a few … Continue reading .NET Internals Cookbook Part 11 — Various C# riddles
This is the tenth part of the .NET Internals Cookbook series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 0 – Table of contents 65. How can you await async void method or catch exceptions thrown in it? You need to create your own synchronization context and task … Continue reading .NET Internals Cookbook Part 10 — Threads, Tasks, asynchronous code and others