IEnumerable<Stuff> - All Comments

re: Type inference and refactoring

Dave — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:42:42 GMT

I agree completely. var is great, makes for better refactoring, and makes the code cleaner. Really with VS2008, C#, Resharper, you get a very productive environment. I would say more so than even the scripting languages (Groovy, Ruby, Python) because you get the static guarantees. Great blog by the way.

re: Functional Shortcuts 2 - Event-Based Asynchronous Pattern

George Kapsambelis — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:17:59 GMT

Hi Mark, thanks for the response. I'll check back from time to time and see if there are any updates. Good luck! -George

re: Functional Shortcuts 2 - Event-Based Asynchronous Pattern

rendle — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:34:32 GMT

Hi George.

You are right, this example does not implement the pattern 100% correctly, although I'm pretty sure it could. When I'm a bit less snowed at work, I'll revisit it and see if I can make the necessary changes. It will make a good way of demonstrating the way that the implementation can be changed once in the Helper and the benefits will automatically be available to all the consumers.

Mark

re: Functional Shortcuts 2 - Event-Based Asynchronous Pattern

George Kapsambelis — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:59:43 GMT

Thanks for this interesting post. One difference I've observed with your technique vs. the Event-Based Asynchronous Pattern MSDN example (PrimeNumberCalculator) is that in the MSDN example, when the AsyncCompletedEvent fires, it fires on the Main UI thread as opposed to the background worker thread. I see that in your example the console is being updated by the background thread. Is this because the AsyncHelper class does not make use of the AsyncOperation class like in the MSDN example? I'm not trying to be critical, I'm just wondering if there is some way to enhance your AsyncHelper so that it can report it's events on the Main UI thread so that the client calling the async method does not have to deal with threading issues when updating the UI. Thanks again for the thought provoking post! -George

re: More thoughts on Enums vs. Adapters

rendle — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:45:19 GMT

In some situations that would be a better approach. For the exact example given here, where the behaviour setting is immutable, I think my approach is more efficient as it only creates one delegate.

re: More thoughts on Enums vs. Adapters

Joe — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:28:52 GMT

Isn't it more effecient to use an array of delegates and cast the enum to an int to index that array?

re: ReSharper 4.0 EAP

rendle — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:48:32 GMT

Alex,

That's great; just in time for my project!

re: Recursing ControlCollection

rendle — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:46:46 GMT

The "CSS Overrides" feature of Community Server seems to have been disabled round these parts, which means Mike Ormond's Live Writer Code Formatting plug-in doesn't work very well. Does anybody know of a code formatting add-in for Windows Live Writer that will work with WindowsClient blogs?

re: ReSharper 4.0 EAP

Alexander — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:26:28 GMT

RGreaEx 1.1 will be released at the end of March. The new version will support R# 3.x and R# 4.0.

re: Yet another blog

Nick — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:48:14 GMT

Welcome to the blogosphere!