How far could we get trying to implement our own delegate types? How are are delegates related the observer pattern? In this less serious but technically interesting post, we explore the relation between delegates and observers, look at how close we could and our ability to implement our own delegate type; or at least imitate … Read more
Multiple asserts in test-cases are considered bad practice. The usual reason for this, is that if one assert fails, you will never se the result of the rest. And probably true, having a single assertion, improves defect localization and simplifies the tests. But sometimes… sometimes you wish you could have multiple conditions; and that it would be ok.
If you have a stream of GZip compressed data, you can wrap the stream object in a deflating GZipStream. But how do you decide whether to wrap a stream in a deflating stream? And how do you identify encoding while also handing over the full untouched stream to the decoder?