Let me share you with one of the weirdest errors I ever encountered. Recently, I have been working on a distributed application which is built from a server and some clients. The clients are Windows Forms applications. Yesterday, I spent a whole day chasing a very weird and strange error - I was getting an exception at the main method (unhandled exception) of the client application. Here is what I got:

The error description was:

There are several things a software developer can do to make his life much more difficult in the future. One day, some pieces of an old code may make us sorry we haven’t dedicated some more effort when we wrote it, so we have to pay attention and be careful. I am not talking about bad developers who always generate bad code because in those cases, every piece of their code is a disaster. Amit is talking about this issue in Terrible Code Examples - Methods From Hell. In this article I will point out some more .NET advanced issues that even the best developers have to be aware of. There are some things you can do which will cause some problems later on and you will be the one who have to handle with those issues. In other words, I will try to prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot.

The other day I wan in the need of a sorted collection. I found that there are 2 sorted collections available. SortedDictionary and SortedList. Now let me ask you, what do you think is the difference? Well, my first though was that they are the same except for the keys, which in SortedDictionary have to [...]

The ServiceContainer, implementing the IServiceContainer Interface is used to store and retrieve services. it is used for Dependency Injection, a very important concept that allows separating independent components, and is widely discussed over the web. However, one drawback of this implementation is it does not work with .net  remoting…