Throwing, catching, and a little bit of paranoia

Joe Duffy is paranoid. And by the looks of his blog entry Throwing, catching, and a little bit of paranoia I might be a little more paranoid too, especially around security sensitive code.

In a nutshell, despite your best intentions a perfectly valid .NET app can get code between an exception in your method and your finally block. Yikes!

[Listening to: Eminem - Til Hell Freezes Over]

Accessibility Domains and you

Jeff Key of SnippetCompiler fame posts a nice overview of Accessibility Domains. I.e. just what code can has access to a given class/method/member given it's accessibility modifiers (private/internal/public).

[Listening to: Placebo - Black-Eyed]

Limiting Profiling to particular blocks of code

Richard Wurdack (a.k.a Angry Richard) gives a quick intro to the profiler api and the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Profiler namespace to help Limit the Data Crunch from Trace Profiling.

This might help to prevent drowning in trace data.

[Listening to: Limp Bizkit - Outro]

One hand washing the other - Clarke Scott

You never know when you're going to need a favour, so here goes nothing...

Clarke Scott is asking for help to market his CRM software application for SME businesses by increasing his Google rating.

More power to you.

[Listening to: Natalie Imbruglia - One More Addiction]

Customizing Quickwatch in VS.NET debugger for custom classes

I know, I know, it's been a while. I could spout off about being too busy or on vacation but basically I'm just too lazy. Anyhow, in the laziness vein, here's a post that I want to keep around in case I'm looking for it later:

Customizing Quickwatch in VS.NET debugger for custom classes. I remember this sort of feature from VS6 but since I could never remember what the file was...

[Listening to: Whitesnake - Still of the Night]