diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Buffers/Buffer.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Buffers/Buffer.cs
index d810dbf2..a537ce9f 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Buffers/Buffer.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Buffers/Buffer.cs
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             unsafe
             {
                 fixed (byte* src = data)
-                    return TF_NewBufferFromString(new IntPtr(src), (ulong) data.LongLength);
+                    return TF_NewBufferFromString(new IntPtr(src), (ulong)data.LongLength);
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_resource_variable_ops.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_resource_variable_ops.cs
index 102e10ee..3063ab35 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_resource_variable_ops.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_resource_variable_ops.cs
@@ -57,7 +57,9 @@ namespace Tensorflow
                 return null;
             }
 
-            return null;
+            var _op = tf._op_def_lib._apply_op_helper("AssignAddVariableOp", name, new { resource, value });
+
+            return _op;
         }
 
         public static Operation assign_variable_op(Tensor resource, Tensor value, string name = null)
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/resource_variable_ops.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/resource_variable_ops.cs
index 7c769ae1..6d5c9d95 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/resource_variable_ops.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/resource_variable_ops.cs
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ using System;
 using System.Linq;
 using Tensorflow.Framework;
 using static Tensorflow.CppShapeInferenceResult.Types;
+using static Tensorflow.Binding;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 
 namespace Tensorflow
 {
@@ -106,7 +109,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
         public static Tensor variable_handle_from_shape_and_dtype(TensorShape shape, TF_DataType dtype, 
             string shared_name, string name, bool graph_mode, Tensor initial_value = null)
         {
-            var container = "";// ops.get_default_graph().container;
+            var container = ops.get_default_graph().Container;
             var handle = gen_resource_variable_ops.var_handle_op(shape: shape,
                 dtype: dtype,
                 shared_name: shared_name,
@@ -153,10 +156,24 @@ namespace Tensorflow
         /// <param name="handle"></param>
         /// <param name="handle_data"></param>
         /// <param name="graph_mode"></param>
-        private static void _set_handle_shapes_and_types(Tensor handle, HandleData handle_data, bool graph_mode)
+        private static void _set_handle_shapes_and_types(Tensor tensor, HandleData handle_data, bool graph_mode)
         {
             if (!graph_mode)
                 return;
+
+            var size = handle_data.ShapeAndType.Count;
+
+            var shapes = new IntPtr[size];
+            var types = new DataType[size];
+            var ranks = new int[size];
+
+            for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
+            {
+                var shapeAndType = handle_data.ShapeAndType[i];
+                types[i] = shapeAndType.Dtype;
+                ranks[i] = shapeAndType.Shape.UnknownRank ? -1 : shapeAndType.Shape.Dim.Count;
+                var dims = shapeAndType.Shape.Dim.Select(x => x.Size).ToArray();
+            }
         }
 
         /// <summary>
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Tensor.Implicit.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Tensor.Implicit.cs
index cabaae24..bcf895db 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Tensor.Implicit.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Tensor.Implicit.cs
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ namespace Tensorflow
     {
         public static implicit operator IntPtr(Tensor tensor)
         {
-            if (tensor._handle == IntPtr.Zero)
-                Console.WriteLine("tensor is not allocated.");
             return tensor._handle;
         }
 
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/tensorflow.memory.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/tensorflow.memory.cs
index 1c1e8ddd..f9f0e8f3 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/tensorflow.memory.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/tensorflow.memory.cs
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ namespace Tensorflow
         public unsafe void memcpy<T>(IntPtr dst, T[] src, long size)
             where T : unmanaged
         {
+            if (src.Length == 0) return;
+
             fixed (void* p = &src[0])
                 System.Buffer.MemoryCopy(p, dst.ToPointer(), size, size);
         }