Chris Burrows' [Old] Blog

In Parts I , II , and III , I talked about the slight changes that we made to field like events, to the += and -= event accessor operators, and how this may affect you. Just so we’re all on the same page, I want to consolidate here a list of Dos and Don...

In the last two posts, I revealed that field-like events in C# 4 have a better synchronization story , and that we changed += and -= in a kind of subtle way to protect you, in many cases, from the semantic differences this introduces between C# 3 and...

Last time , we saw that the field-like event accessor code that the C# compiler emits has changed. And it’s better in a few ways because we’ve banished the locking code that we used to emit. There are a few questions that came up in the comments, and...

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything about the way the compiler generates field-like events, and I have some good news. We fixed them! Well, anyway, we changed them, and I believe that in C# 4, they are better than they used to be. Read...