Why Reship a Buggy API?

2007-07-11
1 min read

Version 1.0 of the .NET Framework introduced System.Drawing.Region‘s Union method, designed to union two regions or several other types into a region. A bug, first reported in 2001, caused unexpected behavior. The method’s output was determined as unreliable….

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