Recently mickey0 posted a question on the CodeGuru forum, asking whether VC++ had any syntax similar to the C# yield instruction. Although I knew the answer was ‘no’, I was still intrigued to figure out if it was possible to implement something similar.

I started with a web search and found a couple of existing implementations, all of which were using Win32 Fibers, so I realized that fibers was the way to go. Even though the examples I found was good tutorials on fibers, they did not meet my requirements on a proper yield implementation. So I had to get dirty. Read the rest of this entry »

This message keeps popping up on my laptop:

As far as I know my laptops network card is a part of the motherboard, and trying to remove it would probably involve a hammer and a chisel. And that’s safe?!

C# 2.0 introduced a feature called delegate inference. Delegate inference is an simplification of how you initialize delegates.

Where you prior to C# 2.0 would have to write:

MyDelegate d = new MyDelegate(MyFunction);

You can now simply write:

MyDelegate d = MyFunction;

The two lines of code behaves exactly the same. They construct a new instance of MyDelegate passing MyFunction as argument to the constructor, and then assign the instance to the variable d.

As the name ‘delegate inference’ suggests, the compiler fills in the ‘missing parts’ using inference, leaving the developer with less keystrokes and more readable code. Which is a good thing. Read the rest of this entry »

You’ve managed to get this far, so you might as well leave some ‘comments’ in my guestbook…

…is that it makes me wonder why they didn’t throw in Array.IsNullOrEmpty as well.

-petter