Sometimes I get bug reports and, since no one else has ever reported them and they seem weird (“they” referring to the crash, not the user!), I write them off as a fluke, a one-time random occurrence, or what you might call “bit rot”. However, when you start to get many crash logs with the [...]
I actually found this by accident the other day. I was toying around with the latest build of Paint.NET, fresh out of the compiler’s oven, and I noticed some weird behavior. I had pre-ordered BioShock on Steam about 10 seconds after I read it was available on there (Tuesday can’t come fast enough!), and was [...]
As the author of something like Paint.NET, I often get bugs reported that I simply don’t understand. Ever since before Paint.NET 3.0 went into beta, I’ve been getting crash reports like the following:
System.InvalidOperationException: ScratchSurface already borrowed: ‘PaintDotNet.DocumentWorkspace.DoSaveAs() handing off scratch surface to DoSaveAsDialog()’ (trying to borrow for: ‘PaintBucketTool: Tool.Activate()’)
This tells me that the Paint Bucket [...]