Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Do properties need a 'holder' keyword?

2003-10-22 Thread Robin Debreuil
Yeah, I think most people are using some sort of automator, and I don't see many variations on what the gen'd code should look like, so it seems ripe for formalization - unless there would be side effects. Another option would be to have blank get/set methods automatically insert that code, kind

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Do properties need a 'holder' keyword?

2003-10-22 Thread Michael Iles
Simon Robinson's 'Advanced .NET Programming' begins with a few very good chapters on IL. Mike. -- Michael Iles Deploy and Manage Enterprise-class Windows Forms Apps with Kinitos -Original Message- From: Jeff Varszegi Sent: October 21, 2003 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

[ADVANCED-DOTNET] Developing Shared AddIn for function calls in Excel Cells

2003-10-22 Thread Akshay Arora
This is a repost from the CLR/CX list, perhaps it is a better place for it, since no one was able to comment... Hi Listers, I was wondering if anyone has created a Shared Add-In that is loaded by Excel in which you can input a function into a cell (i.e. =SomeFunction( A1, A2 ) ). That function

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Do properties need a 'holder' keyword?

2003-10-22 Thread Dominic Cooney
Simple get/set properties are (almost) always inlined-- use windbg with SOS and disassemble a method with a property access vs. a field access to observe this. That is why replacing simple properties with fields is probably of marginal performance benefit. Dominic Cooney Jeff Varszegi wrote:

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Do properties need a 'holder' keyword?

2003-10-22 Thread Arlie Davis
You're mostly smoking crack. The JIT compiler knows how to inline trivial get/set methods. However, there's nothing wrong with this approach. In the future, optimizers may be able to make better use of readonly hints, to reduce pointer dereferencing, etc. But for now, yeah, there is no real

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Do properties need a 'holder' keyword?

2003-10-22 Thread Arlie Davis
Provide performance data that backs this up, before saying there can be quite a performance penalty. Speculation is not data. Debug builds are not release builds. -- arlie -Original Message- From: Moderated discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Urs

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Do properties need a 'holder' keyword?

2003-10-22 Thread Stefan Holdermans
Jeff, [...] Also, what's the relative cost of a property get/set versus a method invocation? There is no such cost, i.e. the notion of properties only exists on the metadata level --- runtime there is no difference between method invocation and calling a property's getter or setter. P.S. I

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Help! Which middle-tier: remoting, sockets, COM+ ......

2003-10-22 Thread Jeff Reese
There are questions about whether Remoting should ever cross machine boundaries. This questions about this are amplified when the use of Remoting events. Clemens Vasters has a great set of slides on how to make the kinds of decisions and how to organize your code here:

[ADVANCED-DOTNET] Serviced Component In a Multi-User Environment.

2003-10-22 Thread Vikram S
Hi All, I am getting the following error on my App Server in COM+ : Error Details: The system has called a custom component and that component has failed and generated an exception. This indicates a problem with the custom component. Notify the developer of this component that a

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Help! Which middle-tier: remoting, sockets, COM+ ......

2003-10-22 Thread Daniel Young - IS
The only advice I have Is don't use events in dotnet remoting.. Check out this website for more info.. http://www.ingorammer.com/RemotingFAQ/RemotingUseCases.html Regards Daniel -Original Message- From: Colesy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2003 2:37 p.m. To:

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Help! Which middle-tier: remoting, sockets, COM+ ......

2003-10-22 Thread Colesy
Many thanks for your reply Mark. I can avoid callbacks using begin/endinvoke and polling for returned messages but I definitely need events, even if I scale down the app would events and remoting still cause problems for me? would you recommend working with sockets directly or looking at say MSMQ

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Help! Which middle-tier: remoting, sockets, COM+ ......

2003-10-22 Thread Colesy
Thanks for the link Ernest - I am definitely discarding web services as an option here but would you recommend remoting, working with the sockets, Message Queueing or using EnterpriseServices? What experiences have you had with any of these? Cheers === This list is

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Do properties need a 'holder' keyword?

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Day
I know that when using properties there are a lot of read only (get accessor only) properties which would be useful to have auto-generated for me. Think of the Count property in a collection. Internally it's read/write but externally the property has a get accessor only. Having a short-hand way

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Do properties need a 'holder' keyword?

2003-10-22 Thread Daniel Young - IS
Rule 01 only in the rarest of occasions should you use public fields in any object.. It breaks the rules of encapsulation and data hiding, It also does not allow any data validation entering the object. I know it can be tedious writing properties for all fields but a good habit to get into. I

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Do properties need a 'holder' keyword?

2003-10-22 Thread Daniel Young - IS
Actually I think it's a good rule of thumb full stop. There is no performance penalty between calling public member variables and accessing them through properties. The only performance penalty is on your fingers, writing properties can be very tedious work. Enclosed is my example of the IL

[ADVANCED-DOTNET] .NET Remoting and thread pooling

2003-10-22 Thread Diranieh, Yazan
I have a windows service that acts as a .NET Remoting listener for incoming requests from remote clients. I verified that the listener does actually use the thread pool to service client requests. Now, given the fact that there are (by default) only 25 threads available in each CPU's thread pool,

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Do properties need a 'holder' keyword?

2003-10-22 Thread Daniel Young - IS
Actually there is no performance penalty using property vs using public field Enclosed is my example of il code produced first using property, and next using public variable. Regards Daniel // using property .method private hidebysig static void Main(string[] args) cil managed { .entrypoint

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Help! Which middle-tier: remoting, sockets, COM+ ......

2003-10-22 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
Timeto step in. No, first Ingo Rammer :-) What he says in his document about Events in Removting is right, or utter bullshit, depending on how you look at it. It is absoltuly correct - they scale bad, have a ton of intrinsic problems etc., but this is not so much a remoting problem, but a

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] .NET Remoting and thread pooling

2003-10-22 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
Look at how ASP.NET works. ASP.NET also has only a limited number of threads, and still it manages to handl way more connnected clients. The same principles apply with remoting. Thomas Tomiczek THONA Software Consulting Ltd. (Microsoft MVP C#/.NET -Original Message- From: Moderated

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Do properties need a 'holder' keyword?

2003-10-22 Thread Damien Guard
It breaks the rules of encapsulation and data hiding, If all you are doing is setting a private field and reading it and it is the same type (as per the example posted) you are not hiding or encapsulating anything but instead compromising for the fact the .NET environment will break binary

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] .NET Remoting and thread pooling

2003-10-22 Thread Manuel Costa
in both 1.0 and 1.1 if you have 1 Processor: - method execution is serialized at server side - you only have concurrency if the server thread associated with the remote call gets into a sleeping stage. to solve the problem you can dispatch the execution to a second thread with

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] .NET Remoting and thread pooling

2003-10-22 Thread Alan Robbins
Yazan If you haven't read Ingo Rammer's book on remoting by all means you'll want to get it. What we found in our stress testing was that for a SAO object the implementor only sees a single thread. The remoting framework handles the connection/socket threads. Try as we might we could not swamp

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Do properties need a 'holder' keyword?

2003-10-22 Thread D Young
Sorry my previous post may have been incorrect. I think i got confused with something i read. I think it goes that there is no performance penality using proporties over methods to set member fields because internally the complier turns them into methods anyway. However in saying that i tried

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Help! Which middle-tier: remoting, sockets, COM+ ......

2003-10-22 Thread Jeff Reese
Here is a more in-depth discussion of using Remoting events across machine boundaries from another source that was linked to earlier: No matter which category your application belongs to, I heavily recommend NOT to use events, callbacks or client-side sponsors for networked applications. Yes,

[ADVANCED-DOTNET] C# generics constraints syntax

2003-10-22 Thread Thong (Tum) Nguyen
Hey folks, Can anyone think of a reason why the constraints syntax is this: public class DictionaryKeyType, ValType where KeyType : IComparable rather than this: public class DictionaryKeyType : IComparable, ValType ? The former adds an additional (unreserved?) keyword to the language and

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] C# generics constraints syntax

2003-10-22 Thread Adam Sills
Because you can't represent multiple constraints in the one-liner since commas are already used to separate KeyType and ValType: public class DictionaryKeyType, ValType where KeyType: IComparable, IEnumerable, ISomethingElse adam.. -Original Message- From: Moderated discussion of

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] C# generics constraints syntax

2003-10-22 Thread Daniel O'Connell
I'd say readability first, personally. It'd be alot easier to read public class DictionaryKeyType,ValType where KeyType : IComparable, ICollection, IAnotherThing, ValueType : IComparable, IDictionaryValue, IAnotherRestriction than public class DictionaryKeyType : IComparable, ICollection,