One thing that I've been spending a lot of time thinking about recently is using aspects as diagnostic probes. That was why I was sending out emails asking questions like "what are the top 10 mistakes that you see folks making when writing .NET code".
It is certainly possible to write some an aspect that will enforce thread affinity at runtime. In fact, I've added that to my list of interesting diagnostic probes to write. I've written other experimental diagnostic probes that do interesting things like: 1) Enforce limits on the size of ViewState in an ASP.NET page 2) Enforce limits on the size of Session state in an ASP.NET application 3) Enforce limits on how long a database connection can be held open for I can see lots of value in using these things, particularly if the folks who wrote that technology, or folks who are intimately familiar with that technology can capture their knowledge inside of a diagnostic probe / aspect. Do folks have other interesting ideas for aspects as diagnostic probes? -John http://www.iunknown.com You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
