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Psychic debugging...

  • Artigo

Ray wrote a post entitled "Psychic Debuggin: IP on heap", where he talks about somebody being amazed at his abilities to debug something immediately.

Which brought something to mind (which I hope I haven't written about before (I did a quick search and didn't find anything ))

Perhaps 4 or 5 times, I've come across the following question:

I'm implementing an add-in architecture for my application. I'm able to load the add-in assembly and create an instance of a type, but I get an exception when I try to cast it to an interface.

The answer - and it's *always* been this answer for me - is the following (highlight to view):

You have the interface defined in your main program and in the add-in, and the assembly is part of the type's identity, so the two interfaces are not the same type.

Which is really obvious when you've come across it a couple times, but there is a certain degree of satisfaction to be able to diagnose it correctly from afar.

Do you have any examples of psychic debugging?

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  • Anonymous
    November 15, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    November 15, 2007
    Stack Overflow Exception. I would put money on someone having implemented a recursive property by accident (probably via intellisense since they wrote the property before they wrote the field).

  • Anonymous
    November 15, 2007
    File not found. "This code works perfectly when I run it standalone under a test jig, but fails when I run it as an add-in under a service." When run as an application, the current working directory is the same as the AppDomain.BaseDirectory. When running under a service, the default current working directory is <HomeDrive>WindowsSystem32. moral: don't assume anything about default directories, always specify a full path. 'course, lots of other things change when running as a service, but this one always surprises people.

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