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Introduction  Prism provides the guidance to create composite applications and help us to design loosely coupled components, which can be integrated and developed in seamless manner. Like every other application, Prism application also need to get start from somewhere. And when coming to Prism, it is Bootstrapper and Shell. These two things help any Prism application up and running. In this article, we will look more into Bootstrapper and its process. So, gear up and let's get started... Bootstrapper So, what is Bootstrapper? Bootstrapper is the class, which is responsible for initializing our application. Now question is what to initialize? So, the first thing is to initialize is the Core Services and then the Application Specific Services. Core Services : These are non-application specific services that Prism library provide to us. These services include: IModuleManager  - Responsible for retrieving application's modules IModuleCatalog  - It is used to reg...

While doing one of my assignment, I came across a strange fact about GetHashCode() in C#. Object.GetHashCode() tells that String class returns identical hash codes for identical strings. But after doing some experiments, I found that above mentioned statement is bit misleading. Actually, it varies from architecture-to-architecture, depending upon, whether one is using 32-bit or 64-bit machine. To prove this, I created a sample application in C#. I ran above snippet on 32-bit windows machine and found below result: then I ran the same code on 64-bit machine and come up with below result : Now looking at above results, one can easily conclude about the behaviour of GetHashCode(). So, beware and think atleast twice, before using GetHashCode() for strings, as it may give different-different results on different-different platforms. CodeProject

Today I was just doing net surf and came across one interesting question 'Can progress event of BackgroundWorker execute after completed event'. At first I thought no, but when I tried this with Console application, I was also able to reproduce this issue. Now question is, how come this scenario occurs in Console app and not in Windows form. Pretty interesting, right ? Now coming to Windows form, this issue will never occur, due to message queuing support. Windows message queue takes very good care of execution sequence of the events. This clearly mean that the progress event may run after the DoWork has completed, but the completion event will always happen afterwards. Another interesting thing here is the SynchronizationContext, which helps in maintaining all these sequencing. But when talking about Console application, none of the above holds true. There is no SynchronizationContext installed and the events just end up in getting run in threadpool thread, which doesn...

As we all know, Exception handling plays a very important role in any developer’s life. When talking about exception handling, throw is the first thing, which comes into our mind. Today, we will see, how actually throw works. The given code catches the exception and just throws it again, without passing any explicit Exception object.  Now, let’s take another version of this above code: This given code will create the object of Employee and will catch the exception and from catch block it will throw the catched exception via ex (our Exception class object). Now question is how these two code snippets are different. For more analysis, let’s open ILDasm and drop your .EXE into it. For the first snippet, we will see something like below: From this given image, we can see ex (Exception class object) has been defined as local variable using .local, but in the catch block, compiler changes the throw statement...

We implement the Finalize method to release the unmanaged resources. First let’s see, what is managed and unmanaged resources. Managed ones are those, which we write in .Net languages. But when we write code in any non .Net language like VB 6 or any windows API, we call it as unmanaged. And there are very high chances that we use any win API or any COM component in our application. So, as managed resources are not managed by CLR, we need to handle them at our own. So, once we are done with unmanaged resources, we need to clean them. The cleanup and releasing of unmanaged is done in Finalize(). If your class is not using any unmanaged resources, then you can forget about Finalize(). But problem is, we can’t directly call Finalize(), we do not have control of it. Then who is going to call this. Basically GC calls this. And one more thing to remember is, there is no Finalize keyword that we will write and implement it. We can define Finalize by defining the Destructor. Destructor is us...