Agility eLetter
January 2006
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In this issue... In this issue, we have a detailed article on Background Worker Thread in .NET 2.0. Abstract: Delegating a task to a separate thread is easy. However, updating user controls with result of those tasks was not, until .NET 2.0. BackgroundWorker in .NET 2.0 makes life easier. It allows you to delegate tasks to be executed in a separate thread, and provides a thread-safe way to update the user controls as well. In this article, we will explore the capabilities of BackgroundWorker component. Please visit http://www.agiledeveloper.com/download.aspx to download the complete article from the Agile Developer web site. |
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Message from us We would like to recognize here the Agility Quiz winners
from 2005: Cisco (twice), David, Joan Pere, Keith, Kiran, Puneet (thrice),
and If you would like any question to be addressed or topic to be discussed, please send us an email at agility@agiledeveloper.com. We love to hear from you. Please send suggestions, corrections and comments to |
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Quiz corner A handy tool, ____________, among other things, allows you to browser your .NET assembly, view components as IL instructions and reverse engineered C#/VB.NET code. Send your response to agility@agiledeveloper.com. This year, each person with the first correct response to the quiz in each issue of Agility will win a special prize. Quiz from the past issue When I mention ______ closure, I am not talking about that spicy Indian dish, but a Groovy facade with some parameters pre-assigned. Answer! The
first correct response -
“curried” – was from Puneet! |
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Thus spake... "Perfection is achieved, not when there
is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove," - Antoine de Saint-Exupery. |