0010_dotnet-problems.md

Notes

• I am trying to catalog the major issues I ran into with dotnet.

WPF

• It's very unclear how the bindings are resolved and the order of evaluation seems to matter a lot more than it should.

  • The constructor seems to run before the dependency properties are processed, however, setting values in the constructor can break binding sometimes.

  • Binding to properties of sibling nodes seems to be unreliable as well.

• Dependency properties are extremely error prone because it looks at the type and silently discards it if it doesn't match.

.NET

• The CancellationToken abstraction does not have any sort of synchronization mechanism.

  • I should research how this is done in C++. If I remember correctly, std::condition_variable and std::mutex can achieve this together.