Thanks for the reply, Richard! I also had taken a look at the code in System.Xml.dll from 4.5.2 and from 4.6.1 using ILSpy, but couldn't find any significant difference. Both versions had the "XmlCharType.bin" resource embedded inside the assembly. When our addon is being loaded, it's creating a separate AppDomain to avoid any side effects the host application might have, so I have no idea what they could actually do to make our addon fail so miserably. I even looked at the assemblies loaded into our AppDomain when initializing the configuration system fails and System.Xml.dll is already loaded at the very beginning, so I really cannot see what could keep the assembly from finding its own embedded resource... To my understanding, even fiddling with CAS cannot influence access to an assembly when it's already loaded, can it?

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Hi community! I got a situation that's driving me insane: In order to work together with a third-party suite of applications, we have created a kind of addon. This addon is being loaded without any problems into several third-party applications as well as into a MS Word addon the other party wrote. Our addon creates its own AppDomain, so that there should be no interference with the host application. All of this works nicely when using .NET 4.0 up to .NET 4.5.2. Recently, a customer tried running the same setup with .NET 4.6.1 and all of a sudden, the addon crashes when it's being loaded into the Winword-Addon. The crash happens as soon as our addon tries to access ConfigurationManager.AppSettings. The call stack shows that there's a NullReferenceException at System.Xml.XmlCharType.get_Instance() that's happening while the configuration system is being initialized. It only happens there and only with .NET 4.6.1. I'm out of ideas, can anyone help?

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It's the only constructor and none of the parameters are optional... Oh, and did I mention that the whole class has exactly 0 comments?

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A former employee of ours left some really wonderful smells in our code, for example a class with no less than 8 constructor parameters. And right now I stumbled across a method named TryGetUsergroupByNameOrTostringDss(). Thanks BH, you know who you are... I guess it's my fault as well - now I can see how important code reviews for every code would have been. But it's too late to mourn now and I have to clean out the manure on my own :(

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Just found this gem in the .NET BCL documentation on Process.WaitForExit(Int32): In the .NET Framework version 3.5 and earlier versions, if milliseconds was -1, the WaitForExit(Int32) overload waited for MaxValue milliseconds (approximately 24 days), not indefinitely.

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The glass is twice the size needed. I've used such constructs in the past, but meanwhile mostly avoid catching all exceptions and just returning true/false because in order to fix the problem you usually need to know what the exception was. Otherwise you can only say "something went wrong", without any further information about the where and why.

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Beer contains female hormone: Drink a few and you cannot drive anymore ;P Another 5$ into the chauvinist jar...

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Hi! This cartoon originates from Geek And Poke[^]

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I think you should give credit where it's due: Geek and poke[^]

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Hi! As others have mentioned, there are many resources on the net discussing the security model in detail and telling you what to do if you don't need/want the default settings. If you haven't been able to read and understand these options in almost 5 years now then you're really way behind.

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Yep. Add Apple to the list. I wanted to change my credit card valid-thru date on my iTunes account because I had gotten a new credit card. So I punched in the new date and clicked "Save" only to be told that "some data was invalid" (they didn't even tell me what data was wrong!) After evaluating everything I saw on-screen several times, I tried modifying each of the fields. Turned out that I could only delete characters from my phone number but not add them again! Yes, for Apple phone numbers have 8 characters at most, because in USA that's the maximum length. Strange enough, I was able to enter the 9 character phone number initially and the complete number was being displayed on the page, the f*ing system just wouldn't let me save this data again :mad:

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Hi! Even though the Lounge may not be the perfect place for this question, it's pretty easy to answer. With O(log n) your running time grows with the logarithm of input values. I.e. when the algorithm takes 1s for 10 inputs, it'll take 2s for 100 inputs, 3s for 1000 inputs and so on.

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Hi! Do you really want to install Win8 Preview on a real machine? Using a virtual machine for this will give you a lot less headache. Yesterday I installed the preview with (a not up to date version of) VirtualBox and it worked (after switching from an emulated SATA disk to IDE). Most virtualization solutions let you mount an iso image as DVD, so no need to actually burn a DVD. The big advantage: You host system is untouched and you can delete the VM once you're done.

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London street riots have crossed the channel and are leaving Bern in ruins: Street riot in Bern, Switzerland[^] I really wonder what these people are thinking?!

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Great! But what happened to 19 and 22?

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Hi guys! In one of my applications I use UDP multicast to broadcast event notifications to an arbitrary number of clients. This works nicely, except for one system where the application is running on Windows Server 2008R2. On this machine, the call to Send() for a newly created UdpClient hangs. I'm trying to send around 2K of data, well below the maximum size of 16K for UDP packages. The process of sending is quite straightforward (at least from my point of view): - Create a UdpClient - Join the corresponding multicast group - Serialize the event data - Send this data (in row to several destination ports, if this makes any difference) - Leave the multicast group I couldn't find anything about Send() hanging so far, but perhaps someone here has an explanation?

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Take a look at this impressive video: Unlimited detail realtime rendering[^] It definitely blew off my socks...

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What does this have to do in the lounge?

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Nice, but reality has caught up: Durex Performa[^]

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Hi! I think Nuance PaperPort can do this.

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