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Automatic Implementation of the Event-Based Asynchronous Pattern

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Implement the event-based asynchronous pattern automatically with this code generator
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.Remoting.Lifetime;

namespace AsyncGen
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Indicates to AsyncGen that it should process this class or interface, and allows you to customize the generated code.
    /// </summary>
    [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class | AttributeTargets.Interface)]
    public sealed class GenerateAsyncClientClassAttribute : Attribute
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Constructs a new instance of the <see cref="GenerateAsyncClientClassAttribute"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>The default name of the generated class is &lt;type name with leading 'I' stripped&gt;Client.</remarks>
        public GenerateAsyncClientClassAttribute()
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Constructs a new instance of the <see cref="GenerateAsyncClientClassAttribute"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="name">The name of the client class to generate.</param>
        public GenerateAsyncClientClassAttribute(string name)
        {
            this.className = name;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the name of the class to generate.  If this is <c>null</c> or <see cref="string.Empty"/>, the default name is used.
        /// </summary>
        public string ClassName
        {
            get { return className; }
            set { className = value; }
        }

        private string className = string.Empty;
    }
}

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Software Developer (Senior) Philips Healthcare
Israel Israel
I got my B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University in 1997. Since then I have developed software in UNIX, Win32 and .NET. I currently live in Haifa.

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