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Archive for July, 2008

Inspired by this article in the Telegraph.

I was recently building a simple GUI in .NET to operate an algorithm as part of a school project, and I encountered a weird problem using BackgroundWorkers. I spent a lot of time debugging it, mainly because the code seemed to be perfect (which was true) but the run-time behavior was so strange...

Anyway, to make my algorithm as weakly-coupled as possible decided not to use 'BackgroundWorker.ReportProgress', because then my algorithm will have to know what a BackgroundWorker is...
I decided to actually fire my own event whenever I wanted to report on the algorithm progress (which is rather lenghty). So I defined my delegate and event inside my one-function class that runs the algorithm:

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