Thibaut Barrère / LoGeek

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HI, I have a little question, i have instaled .net framework 2.0 but the testdriven show me the Option TestWhit->.Net 2.0
Why it doesn't use the new framework?
Please excuse me the language, i don't speake english very well.
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Usually we rely more the WindowsSynchronizationObject, which offers a bit more flexibility on where the async task was started in the first place. But the backgroundWorker is a nice, not too trap-ridden way to have painless UI related async tasks. Unfortunately, since I mostly have to cope with .Net 2.0 code, the fancy lambda and extensions methods helpers morph into ugly anonymous delegates and static helpers.

Hi Patrick,

thanks for the link!

Related to this topic, a pretty tricky implementation of the pattern 'Overridable Task' we use in NDepend. It is based on BackgroundWorker, and here are detailled explanations:

http://codebetter.com/blogs/patricksmacchia/archive/2008/06/10/backgroundworker-closure-and-overridable-task.aspx

Hi Yann,

yeah we share your feelings on InWorkerThread. It feels a bit weird.

The use case behind that is to have some way to disable most of the UI (form.controls.first.enabled = false) while leaving it responsive, when a long process (import) runs in the background and reports now and then.

We coded the same behaviour using a background worker, but we didn't like the syntax.

So we came up with that, which is a kind of syntactic symetrical of InUIThread (used all over the place).

Using it feels right in our case, but the implementation sounds weird. Playing with IsBusy and DoEvents is not something I find robust.

Anyway - InUIThread matches a good 95% of our use.

Do you use an InUIThread equivalent ? Or do you rely on BackgroundWorker ?

I'd be interested to have some real-life feedback.

cheers and thanks for your comment.

-- Thibaut

Hi,

The InUIThread is a nice extension method but on the other hand I find the InWorkerThread a bit icky, especially the busy wait on worker.IsBusy. Yes, the DoEvents will process Windows messages, but otherwise If the purpose is to have only one worker thread worker, you could have a wait on a waithandle. If you want to simply fire and forget and let the threadpool do its trick, why wait for completion in the first place?

I have written the following code for expectmodal
ExpectModal("Forward Delegate Configuration - SaveConfiguration",new ModalFormActivated(MessageBoxTestHandler));

public void MessageBoxTestHandler()
{
MessageBoxTester messageBox = new MessageBoxTester("Fill All Informations");
shown = true;
messageBox.ClickOk();
}

But on ExpectModal iam getting System.NullReferenceException. Can you please tell me what is wrong in my code or what other change i have to do to get it running

What is CruiseControl.Net. What is it's use.

how can i use CruiseControl.Net with CVS.Net.




Thanks
Anubhava Dimri

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Hi Simz,

I'm not sure why it's failing. Are you running Windows ? On Windows, with ruby 1.8.5, the gem install command works on my machine today... That could be caused by some proxy issue maybe.

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This info is great but I have another question: how exactly pimki is installed?

As I write in my command prompt "gem install pimki --include-dependencies" I receive an error: "ERROR: could not find gem pimki locally or in a repository".

I downloaded the latest release of pimki but where exactly is the pimki file needed for the installation?

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Hi Anthony,

thanks for sharing!