Danny Thorpe » silliness http://dannythorpe.com Dream & Deliver Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:50:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 The Once and Future App http://dannythorpe.com/2008/06/26/the-once-and-future-app/ http://dannythorpe.com/2008/06/26/the-once-and-future-app/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:53:38 +0000 Danny Thorpe http://dannythorpe.com/2008/06/26/the-once-and-future-app/ [...]]]> In the midst of writing some Silverlight code, something struck my funny bone:  .NET has an Application.Current. 

“Current” suggests “now”, and its existance suggests there was a need to distinguish “now” from something else.  Does that mean there could be an Application.Next?  Application.Future?  Application.Past?  Those could save me a lot of effort.  How will I fix this in the next release?  I’ll just take a peek at Application.Next…

Chuck chimes in:  “No, but there is an Application.Torrent.”  That must be the current that lets the application get away from the debugger.

Beware the Application.Eddy!  I’ve had threads stuck in there for days.

A few minutes later Chuck answered a question with “Use SynchronizationContext.Current.  And no, there’s no Future or Past!”

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