http://dotmad.net/blog The Number One Visual Studio 2009 Weblog on the Web Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:07:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As a rule, in every application I write, I always implement both the Application.ThreadException and AppDomain.UnhandledException events, to catch exceptions which were not caught by a try..catch block. There are three reasons behind this: Present a custom failure message to the user (something like Twitter's fail whale message) instead of the default ... http://dotmad.net/blog/2010/08/catching-unhandled-exceptions-and-setunhandledexceptionmode/ ( * Originally posted as "The Million Followers Fallacy" on "Pravda on Media and Tech" ) Twitter is getting more and more attention from "old media" lately. Whether it's a news-story mentioning Twitter, a Twitter competition between a celebrities, or using Twitter to gather reports on the Iran elections, the average ... http://dotmad.net/blog/2009/09/so-you-got-over-a-million-followers-on-twitter/ More than 2 years ago, Ayelet Noff (AKA Blonde 2.0)  wrote a post on social networks vs. blogs (with Myspace as an example for a social network). She claimed there is room for both in the life of a blogger. I disagreed with her: "Blogging takes effort, time and at least a ... http://dotmad.net/blog/2009/08/looking-back-on-social-media-and-myself/ This is a fairly simple issue, but I had to rotate a drawn shape recently. Initial searches led me to the TranslateTransform method, but I learned there is a simpler way to achieve this, using the RotateAt method of the Matrix class: Graphics g = this.CreateGraphics(); //get a graphics object for the form g.DrawRectangle(new Pen(Color.Black), ... http://dotmad.net/blog/2009/03/rotating-graphics/ I have seen this question in Stackoverflow.com, and I want to answer it here: Greetings readers! So I am trying to develop a client server system.. Since I have not designed a client server system before, I thought that I would post a question and see what the experts here have ... http://dotmad.net/blog/2009/02/the-role-ofclients-and-services-in-wcf/ There are limits most application developers never encounter. One of them is the 2GB memory limit for applications running on a 32bit operating system. But what happens if your application is a memory consumer (and most GIS applications are)? You may find out your application tends to crash and burn once reaching ... http://dotmad.net/blog/2009/01/garbage-collector-gen2-and-memory-abuse/ I have recently been to an Israeli user group meeting in which iDesign's Juval Lowy gave a lecture about the new Azure .Net Service Bus for web services written in WCF. Basically a service bus is a router, similar to the one you use in your office network. Instead of needing ... http://dotmad.net/blog/2009/01/juval-lowy-and-net-service-bus/ Some time ago, frustrated with my RSS reader being overrun by VS2008 beta announcements, I wrote a short post announcing the release of VS 2009 beta 1. And although there are some calls to re-brand the most recent service pack, I doubt we'll see this version. Instead we got Visual Studio ... http://dotmad.net/blog/2008/12/visual-studio-2009-is-out-welcome-vs2010/ http://dotmad.net/blog/2008/12/validation/ (If you use Visual Studio 2003 or you tend to ignore compiler warnings, this post is for you) Static classes and members have their uses. However, I recently encountered a dangerous pitfall regarding their usage. Consider the following code: public static class MyClass {     public static int myVal = MyClass.myVal;     public static MyOtherClass myClass ... http://dotmad.net/blog/2008/12/the-dangers-of-static-members/