July, 2006

Safe coding and IDisposable

Submitted by Bevan on Sun, 02/07/2006 - 01:00

I'm really fussy about writing safe code, and I'm a sucker for neat tricks as well - so this deceptively simple idea from Ayende.com is doubly attractive.

The idea in this blog entry is to make it easy to expose an API that's both semantic and safe for the caller.

So often an API requires that pairs of methods are called together - StartProcess and EndProcess or some similar situation.

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