Lazy<T> Optimized Resource Initialization

Posted By: Phil Pennington | Nov 3rd @ 10:48 AM | 23,589 Views | 10 Comments
Join Josh and Steve as they demonstrate how to use the new .NET4 Lazy<T> class in optimized object initialization scenarios.

Lazy<T> is one of many new thread-safe data-structures available with .NET4 and Visual Studio 2010.

Learn more about the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace and keep abreast of Parallel Computing tools and techniques via the Concurrency Dev Center.

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#Nov 6th @ 12:55 PM
phillips.josh
phillips.josh

Hi aL_,

 

Lazy<T,TMetadata> actually extends Lazy<T> and no it won't end up in BCL, for Beta 2, it's actually in System.ComponentModel.Composition.  We'd considered the implicit cast operator but because we're executing arbitrary code we determined that's a bad idea.  It's only complicated by the fact that the valueFactory delegate may thrown an exception.

 

Thanks for the feedback!

 

Josh

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