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The Anti-Social Network

(I’ve returned from my trip a few months ago, but didn’t have enough to blog about; hopefully, this is my returning to a semi-regular posting schedule; also, I’ve decided to veer off .NET in some of my posts, focusing on more issues that I like to talk about and offer my opinions on)… You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it.

Hiatus

In 15 days’ time, I’ll be taking off on a four months long trip around the world. I’ll be hiking and travelling my way through Japan (March-May), the United States of America (May-July) and the Netherlands (July). I’ve been planning this trip for a long time now, since I came back from Japan for the first time in August 2007 (the photo on the right was taken near the Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu Shrine in Kamakura), and have taken a long leave from work to accomplish it. What this means is that from March 10th you can expect a long pause in my semi-regular updates….

Circumventing the KB957543 .NET 3.5 SP1 Regression Bug

A couple of days ago I hit a regression bug in .NET 3.5 SP1, in which when you have a generic class that implements ISerializable and has static variables – you can not serialize it using a BinaryFormatter without your application either hanging (x86) or raising an exception (x64 – a TargetInvocationException containing an OutOfMemoryException). This only happens if you use a reference type as a generic argument…. You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it.