In a previous post, I discussed static abstracts in interfaces, and while it is quite a nice feature, it falls short in some corner cases – particularly in implicit type-conversions. I’m not sure if it should, but… it’s complicated. As an example, I will consider the concept of interchangeable units. Wouldn’t it be neat, if … Read more
I have tought Object Oriented Programming for a number of years and in my time completed more than a thousand oral exams at bachelor level computer science and software engineering students. Overall, it seems object oriented programming can be difficult to comprehend, but clearly the concept of interfaces is one of the harder topics. Interfaces … Read more
Did you ever want to report progress when reading or writing streams in C#? You could of course do reporting manually, when issuing a read or write. This would of course be cumbersome and error prone. But what if the stream you want to monitor is read from or written to by someone else, such … Read more