.NET Gotachas
- .NET Gotachas
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Who This Book Is For
- What You Need to Use This Book
- Measure of Performance
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Using Code Examples
- Comments and Questions
- Safari Enabled
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. CLRFramework Gotchas
- GOTCHA 1 Type alias size doesn t match what you re familiar with
- GOTCHA 2 struct and class differ in behavior
- GOTCHA 3 Returning value types from a methodproperty is risky
- GOTCHA 4 You can t force calls to your value-type constructors
- GOTCHA 5 String concatenation is expensive
- GOTCHA 6 Exceptions may go unhandled
- GOTCHA 7 Uninitialized event handlers aren t treated gracefully
- GOTCHA 8 Division operation isn t consistent between types
- GOTCHA 9 Typeless ArrayList isn t type-safe
- GOTCHA 10 Type.GetType() may not locate all types
- GOTCHA 11 Public key reported by sn.exe is inconsistent
- Chapter 2. Visual Studio and Compiler Gotchas
- GOTCHA 12 Compiler warnings may not be benign
- GOTCHA 13 Ordering of catch processing isn t consist across languages
- GOTCHA 14 Type.GetType() might fail at run-time
- GOTCHA 15 rethrow isn t consistent
- GOTCHA 16 Default of Option Strict (off) isn t good
- GOTCHA 17 Versioning may lead to Serialization headaches
- GOTCHA 18 Creating Web apps can be painful
- GOTCHA 19 Naming XML documentation for IntelliSense support isn t intuitive
- Chapter 3. Language and API Gotchas
- GOTCHA 20 Singleton isn t guaranteed process-wide
- GOTCHA 21 Default performance of Data.ReadXMLData.ReadXML
- GOTCHA 22 enum lacks type-safety
- GOTCHA 23 Copy Constructor hampers exensibility
- GOTCHA 24 Clone() has limitations
- GOTCHA 25 Access to staticShared members isn t enforced consistently
- GOTCHA 26 Details of exception may be hidden
- GOTCHA 27 Object initialization sequence isn t consistent
- GOTCHA 28 Polymorphism kicks in prematurely
- GOTCHA 29 Unit testing private methodstesting private methods
- Chapter 4. Language Interoperability Gotchas
- GOTCHA 30 Common Language Specification Compliance isn t the default
- GOTCHA 31 Optional parameters break interoperability
- GOTCHA 32 Mixing case between class members breaks interoperability
- GOTCHA 33 Name collision with keywords breaks interoperability
- GOTCHA 34 Defining an array isn t consistent
- Chapter 5. Garbage Collection Gotchas
- GOTCHA 35 Writing Finalize() is rarely a good idea
- GOTCHA 36 Releasing managed resources in Finalize( ) can wreak havoc
- GOTCHA 37 Rules to invoke base.Finalize() aren t consistent
- GOTCHA 38 Depending on Finalize() can tie up critical resources
- GOTCHA 39 Using Finalize() on disposed objects is costly
- GOTCHA 40 Implementing IDisposable isn t enough
- GOTCHA 41 Using the Dispose Design Pattern doesn t guarantee cleanup
- Chapter 6. Inheritance and Polymorphism Gotchas
- GOTCHA 42 Runtime Type Identification can hurt extensibility
- GOTCHA 43 Using newshadows causes
- GOTCHA 44 Compilers are lenient toward forgotten overrideoverrides
- GOTCHA 45 Compilers lean toward hiding virtual methods
- GOTCHA 46 Exception handling can break polymorphism
- GOTCHA 47 Signature mismatches can lead to method hiding
- Chapter 7. Multithreading Gotchas
- GOTCHA 48 The Thread classThread class
- GOTCHA 49 Foreground threads may prevent a program from terminating
- GOTCHA 50 Background threads don t terminate gracefully
- GOTCHA 51 Interrupt () kicks in only when a thread is blocked
- GOTCHA 52 ThreadAbortExceptiona hot potato
- GOTCHA 53 Environment.Exit() brings down the CLR
- GOTCHA 54 ResetAbort() may lead to surprises
- GOTCHA 55 Abort() takes time to clean up
- GOTCHA 56 Calling Type.GetType() may not return what you expect
- GOTCHA 57 Locking on globally visible objects is too sweeping
- GOTCHA 58 Threads from the thread pool are scarce
- GOTCHA 59 Threads invoked using delegates behave like background threads
- GOTCHA 60 Passing parameters to threads is tricky
- GOTCHA 61 Exceptions thrown from threads in the pool are lost
- GOTCHA 62 Accessing WinForm controls from arbitrary threads is dangerous
- GOTCHA 63 Web-service proxy may fail when used for multiple asynchronous calls
- GOTCHA 64 Raising events lacks thread-safety
- Chapter 8. COM-Interop and Enterprise Services Gotchas
- GOTCHA 65 Release of COM object is confusing
- GOTCHA 66 Using interface pointers after calling ReleaseComObject() will fail
- GOTCHA 67 Cross-apartment calls are expensive
- GOTCHA 68 Default apartment of main thread is inconsistent across languages
- GOTCHA 69 STAThread attribute may have no effect on your methods
- GOTCHA 70 Spattering access to COM components makes code hard to maintain
- GOTCHA 71 Auto-generating GUID for your classes leads to versioning woes
- GOTCHA 72 All but one of the ClassInterface options are ineffective
- GOTCHA 73 Simply tur ning the switch for COM interop is dangerous
- GOTCHA 74 ServicedComponents implemented inconsistently on XP and 2003
- GOTCHA 75 AutoComplete comes with undesirable side effects
- Appendix: Resources
- Bibliography
- On the Web
- Colophon
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Index
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