Let me talk about my first experience with Ubuntu. But before that I had to state that my previous experience with Linux was somewhat limited. I did play a bit with Linux at around 2003. I also have couple of OpenWRT routers that are Linux based. I was able to do quite a lot with these routers.

Anyway, back to Ubuntu. We had quite old server that was running Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS and I have to install exactly the same version and necessary software. At the beginning I couldn’t find 16.04.5, but I was able to find 16.04.1 and I decided to install it and then later upgrade it to 16.04.5.

Firstly, I accidently install regular Ubuntu with desktop etc. [...Read More]

Many .NET developers sooner or later will have to do interop with unmanaged world. Let’s say for example that you need to use some Dll written in C++. Passing integers or floats relatively easy, but things are much more complicated with strings. Many C++ Dll still uses ANSI strings, so let’s talk about them. Normally when you read Microsoft documentation you will be slightly confused. Some pages states that you have to use UnmanagedType.LPStr like it stated here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime.interopservices.unmanagedtype?view=netframework-4.8#System_Runtime_InteropServices_UnmanagedType_LPStr. And that looks like correct for ANSI strings. Moreover, you can try it and it works just fine.

Some pages stated that you have to use IntPtr: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/ms172514(v=vs.100)?redirectedfrom=MSDN and then manually prepare strings to pass [...Read More]

Last time I wrote that finally last feature I needed was added to Skype. It does not work as I expected but I thought with time they will fixed. Well, a lot of time passed, and nothing changed. Moreover, none of the existing bugs were fixed and new bugs were added. And now about this is details

Last feature I need is window per contact, so I can talk with few people, without constantly switching between them. Moreover, sometimes I actually need to see information from both contacts at the same time. Well Microsoft finally implemented that feature. But if somebody sent me message then instead of highlighting that window in taskbar, only main Skype window highlighted. So, I still [...Read More]