Archive for February, 2008

Analyzing Windows crash dump files

My shiny new Vista laptop has been crashing on almost a daily basis lately. Being a developer, this is unacceptable. There’s nothing like losing an hour’s worth of coding that you’ll never write the same way again. After getting fed up, I decided to do something about it. Blue screen’s suck. Plain and simple. They [...]

Dock property demystified

Many times while designing the layout for a Form, I will use Panels docked to various positions, with controls docked fill inside them. On occasion, for reasons previously unknown to me, the Panels would just not dock the way I wanted them to. Things usually go off without a hitch when the entire layout is [...]