Jeremy Simmons: The Blog

I encountered this while debugging some Managed DirectX code.

1) Open Debug Menu and select Exceptions.
2) Selected Managed Debugging Assistants and find LoaderLock
3) Remove the selected value from the Thrown column

What was that format string again? You know, the one for the GUID where you only output the guid, but with no formatting?

using System;
public class GuidTest
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        string[] guidFormats = {"N", "D", "B", "P"};
        Guid g = new Guid();
        Array.ForEach(guidFormats, delegate(string t)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("{0}:{1}", t, g.ToString(t));
        });
        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}

N:00000000000000000000000000000000
D:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
B:{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
P:(00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000)

That's right. Now I remember.

Edit: 1/8/2010 - I've forgotten again... Darn.

I should create a mnemonic device to remember this

N = Nothing

D = Dashes

B = Brackets

P = Parenthesis

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/system.guid.tostring.aspx

Sometimes you just need a file with nothing particular in it so you can test a web-page with a <input type="file"/>

Rather than write a snippet of code, or use a utility, you can use the operating system to do this.

On WindowsXP, you can use FSUTIL to do this.

FSUTIL FILE CREATENEWFILE <path> <sizeInBytes>

FSUTIL FILE CREATENEWFILE C:\20mbfile.txt 20971520