There is allot of confusion gotesing on in the .NET community when it comes to Lambda expressions.
Allot of blog posts out there claiming that Lambdas are simply another way to write delegates, or rather anonymous delegates.
OK, I’ve had it with the serializers in .NET.
All of them are lacking atleast some features that I need.
In Jimmy Nilsson’s book “Applying Domain Driven Design and Patterns” he writes about a project of his called “NWorkspace”, which is a kind of abstraction layer for O/R mappers.
Parsing and languages have always been one of my main interests when it comes to programming.
So a few weeks ago I decided to buy the “red dragon book” from Amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Alfred-Aho/dp/0201100886
(note: For some reason I managed to buy the edition from 1986 instead of 2006)
I have added the Caramel code generator to my public repository at google code.
http://code.google.com/p/alsing/
Due to public request I am now kicking some life into my old SyntaxBox component again.
The code base have been upgraded to C#3 and compiles for .NET 2.0 (using VS.NET2008)
I’ve been planning to write about stateful anonymous delegates for quite some time now so here I go 🙂
A few days ago I and Fredrik Normén had a discussion about argument validation here: http://weblogs.asp.net/fredriknormen/archive/2008/05/08/how-to-validate-a-method-s-arguments.aspx
[Edit 2012-12-04]
Nowdays, there is better paralell support built into .NET itself.
You can replace my old fork code with the following: