Following on from part 3 where we basically made a little app that lets you scribble with HTML5’s canvas element, let us push on and see what else we can achieve with the canvas element. The logical next step would be to made animations, and give you a way to interact with the animation. So [...]

Welcome to part three! Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 As promised heres a description of the inner workings.  I’m sick to death of typing SocketAsyncEventArgs so from now on I will refer to it as SAEA. BocketPool The BocketPool has an interesting name and with it an interesting constructor!  It takes the [...]

Welcome to part three! As promised heres a description of the inner workings.  I’m sick to death of typing SocketAsyncEventArgs so from now on I will refer to it as SAEA. BocketPool The BocketPool has an interesting name and with it an interesting constructor! It takes the following parameters: number: The number of items to create in the BocketPool. size: The size of each buffer in bytes. callback: A callback function which is invoked whenever the SAEA object completes its operation. 1 2 3 4 5 6 type[...]

Welcome to part three!As promised heres a description of the inner workings. I’m sick to death of typing SocketAsyncEventArgs so from now on I will refer to it as SAEA.

Java vs C# As Jon Skeet pointed out in this excellent article on closures, the strategies of capturing the execution context which the behaviour is bound to different between Java and C#. C# captures the variable itself, whereas Java captures the value of the variable. To illustrate the difference, here’s Jon’s original example in C#: [...]