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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. There are workarounds like ForegroundLockTimeout but ultimately there is no good solution. … Continue reading Decreasing pain of stolen focus
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