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Factory Methods for Futures
Like most generic classes, I prefer to create Future instances through static factory methods which allows me to take maximum advantage of type inference. In addition to the 2 straight forward declaration of Func<T> and Action, the methods will Read More...

Posted Saturday, February 23, 2008 8:35 PM by Jared Parsons | 1 Comments

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Building a Future which returns no Value
In addition to Future<T> there is also the concept of Futures that don't return any values.  Instead the perform the operation and return.  Because there is no additional data to pass between the threads building an Empty Future is fairly Read More...

Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 4:15 PM by Jared Parsons | 1 Comments

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Active Objects and Futures
Herb Sutter gave one of my favorite and inspiring presentations.  It is called "The Free Lunch is Over".  The original article can be found here .  My first encounter though came from his PDC presentation and highly recommend Read More...

Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 11:57 PM by Jared Parsons | 5 Comments

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