Panto Season: Almost ready ...
It’s that time of year again where I get to spend a week sat in the darkness of Keighley’s Victoria Hall.
Just a few more nights of setup …
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Null Checking in C#
Just a quick post today on the subject of null. Checking for null in the bane of many programming languages. And while there are some clever techniques and design patterns that can help minimise the need to do this, it’s inevitable that you’ll end up needing to check
WPF: Drag Parent Window Behaviour
Just a quick post this time: I had a need to be able to reposition a WPF window when I click and dragged on a particular UIElement. The aim was to recreate the behaviour of clicking and dragging on a standard Windows title bar (in my case, I was implementing
C#: Convert the current time to FFXIV's Eorzea Time
I was intrigued by a post on Stack Overflow today where a developer was asking how to convert the current time to Eorzea Time, a fictional timebase used in Final Fantasy XIV’s persistent game world. I’ve never played FFXIV – and probably never will, but I was intrigued by
C# async-await: Common Deadlock Scenario
If you’re new to the async and await keywords in C# and .NET, then it’s likely you will eventually stumble across this deadlock scenario, which is difficult to debug if you’re not familiar with how async and await work under the hood. Consider this example asynchronous method