I recently came across an irk with the new C# coalesce operator (??) which, if done by design, doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me. I couldn't find any documentation either confirming or denying that this is by design...if it's by design I'm sure there is a good reason for doing so, if not...
My machine finally got around to crashing again and I was able to snag a mini-dump...the problem is that I'm limited in my ability to interpret them other than to pick out which process caused the crash. I have 3 total: The first one was crashed by an old USB hub that apparently doesn't play nice with...
[update]I forgot to mention this is on Windows XP x64.[/update] I'm still experiencing some random hangs on my rebuilt machine every couple of hours or so and have finally decided to get off my lazy rear end and track down why it's happening. I'm 90% sure it's related to my sound card driver, but of...
Due to Santa being nice enough to stuff a gift certificate to Best Buy in my stocking this year, I recently picked up Splinter Cell: Double Agent . What I didn't do was read the fine print: You must have a video card that supports shader model version 3.0 . I have an ATI 800XL, which is a pretty bangin...
While I don't plan on being the next John Carmack , I was pretty stoked to see that XNA Studio Express went RTM recently. Except for one small problem...XNA will only run on machines with C# Express installed; the full blown non-express SKU's (Professional, VSTS, etc) aren't compatible. I do realize...
I recently discovered that comment posting to both my photos and download sections are throwing exceptions. My weblog appears to be unaffected, however should anyone get an error attempting to post a comment, please contact me immediately with a copy of the stack trace which is displayed. I don't have...
Where Visual Studio absolutely refuses to cooperate? The VS gods were very much aligned against me earlier this evening...broken references in projects that worked just fine the last time I opened them up, breakpoints playing IDE hide-and-seek, code just outright refusing to compile even though I know...