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Debugging 3rd Party .NET Code without symbols in Visual Studio
It’s not so rare to see weird things happen in 3rd party library code. Call some method and you’ve got a strange exception. Or an incorrect behavior or even a process crash. It sure would be nice to debug some of these issues. In this article we’re going to do just that – You’ll see how to debug 3rd party library code in Visual Studio.
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We recently started experimenting with machine learning on elmah.io. There's a closed beta on anomaly detection and more, similar features will follow in the future. We chose ML.NET as the framework and are pretty happy with the results so far. The amount of documentation is good but mostly limited to flower detection samples (using the frequently used Iris data set). In this post, I'll share how we implemented anomaly/spike detection and which problems we ran into.
Discriminated Unions in C# — An Unexceptional Love Story
Figuring out ways to handle error cases better and as comprehensively as possible is a significant part of what software engineering is about. For a recent project at Kabbage, we have experimented using Discriminated Union types in C# to improve error handling in our code base.
Gamlor's Blog: C# Loves Code Patterns
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