Yesterday I needed to create a bit of code that should retry an http request on failure and i wanted this to happen in a non-blocking fashion, so a plain loop was out. Using DReAM's Plug, I can easily set … Continue reading
A while back I wrote that you really never have to write another delegate again, since any delegate can easily be expressed as an Action or Func. After all what's preferable? This: var work = worker.ProcessTaskWithUser(delegate(Task t, User u) { … Continue reading
I’ve been on a bit of a tear about declaring dependency contracts and injecting only what is required. While examining the use of Interfaces in IoC and their shortcomings, I decided that taken to the extreme, dependencies come down to … Continue reading
This is closely related to my last post on deferred execution gotchas and its basically more “if you inline delegated code, you may easily overlook scope side-effects”. This time it’s about dealing with foreach and using the local each item … Continue reading
I recently wrote about Action & Func, which along with Lambda expression let you do easy inline callbacks like this: Utility.ActionDownloader.Download( Configuration.GetAssetUri(dto.Url), (Downloader d) => { FloatContainer c = (FloatContainer)XamlReader.Load(d.ResponseText); c.Initialize(dto); }); i.e. I can call a downloader and inline … Continue reading
With lambda expressions in C#, the Func generic delegate and it's variations have been getting a lot of attention. So naturally, you might think that the lambda syntax is just a shortcut for creating anonymous delegates, whether they return values … Continue reading
This may be ancient news, but I just came across an article that strongly implied that the reason .NET came about was because Sun didn’t like Microsoft’s addition of delegates to J++. That surely is a condensation of events, but … Continue reading
I’ve recently been doing javascript coding again. Being the object bigot that I am, everything that interacts with a DOM element gets wrapped in an object that becomes responsible for that element’s behavior. Well, then i tried to move all … Continue reading