Yi Zhang's MSDN Blog
Everything about the CLR - interop / WinRT / and other random stuff
Top secret .NET handles - Part 1 - Dependent handles
.NET publicly has documented 4 kind of handles: Weak (also called Short Weak) - Don’t keep target...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 02/08/2018
Calling C functions from Python - part 3 - deep dive into ctypes implementation in CPython
Last time we’ve looked at using ctypes to call C API, and writing extension module using Python/C...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 02/02/2018
Calling C functions from Python - part 2 - writing CPython extensions using Python/C API
In my previous post we’ve briefly looked at using ctypes module to call C APIs. In this post let’s...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 01/27/2018
Calling C functions from Python - part 1 - using ctypes
Recently I’ve been evaluating Python interop technologies for a project at work and I think it’ll...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 01/20/2018
C++ coroutine tutorial
I’ve been experimenting with coroutines recently and I found that information on C++ coroutines are...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 10/28/2017
Writing your own lock-free reader/writer lock
It is sort of puzzling for me why C++ standard doesn't have a implementation of reader/writer lock....
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 10/07/2017
Sharing .NET generic code under the hood
If you come from a C++ programming background, you are most likely already familiar with C++’s...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 04/01/2017
C# value type boxing under the hood
I recently had some really interesting discussion with a .NET typesystem expert in the team, and...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 03/19/2017
Moving my blog to GitHub pages - https://yizhang82.me
I haven't posted in a good while - it's because I've been busy working on .NET native! Now that...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 03/12/2017
Getting rid of TypeLoadException in your WinRT app
I've seen enough people asking about this so I thought I should talk about this in my blog. They see...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 03/21/2014
Async talks on Channel 9
Even though I work on .NET interop and WinRT these days, async/await is still the one topic that...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 03/16/2014
Avoiding C++ types in your P/invokes
It's easier to explain this in an example. Let’s say you have a export function in your native DLL:...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 02/07/2013
WARNING: VS 2012 might break your broken P/Invoke
I'm seeing many people reporting that they are seeing strange P/invoke issues when they moved their...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 01/24/2013
Marshal.GetHRForException does more than just Get-HR-For-Exception
Let's first start by looking at a small code snippet: if (Marshal.GetHRForException(myException) ==...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 01/18/2013
Effective WinDbg breakpoints using hit counts
I learned this debugging trick from a colleague a few days ago when we are debugging a bug together...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 03/07/2011
If your Windows Phone 7 doesn’t sync with Zune Software, try a different USB port
I recently got Samsung Focus but it doesn’t get recognized by the Zune Software – it says “No device...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 12/21/2010
Interpreting HRESULTS returned from .NET/CLR: 0x8013XXXX
What is 0x8013XXXX Occasionally you might run into mysterious HRESULTs returned from .NET that...
Author: Yi Zhang - CLR Date: 12/17/2010