Articles by Stephen Cleary (Articles: 3, Technical Blogs: 5)

Implementing the Disposable Design Principle on the .NET Compact Framework.

One difficulty of the IDisposable interface overcome with the Disposable Design Principle.

Describes the ViewModel command classes in the Open-Source Nito.MVVM (WPF) library, and provides guidelines on their usage.

Using MSBuild Targets as general-purpose functions, complete with parameters and return values.

End-users do not expect components to raise events after they have been disposed. One major issue when designing asynchronous components is the difficulty of cancellation, particularly during object disposal.

How to detect a dropped TCP/IP connection

Why a single "Send" does not necessarily result in a single "Receive", and how to compensate.

When writing components in a multithreaded world, one question that commonly crops up is, "how do I make my events threadsafe?" The asker is usually concerned with threadsafe subscription and unsubscription, but threadsafe raising must also be taken into consideration.