Comments by Isaiah83 (Top 21 by date)

Hey, its great to meet someone that's genuine in their approach and care of questions like mine. A big thanks. I will be working on this project until I learn everything I can about what it is I ultimately want to do; this includes using sockets, and some design patterns I am learning. Since I am new to this forum and how it works, will you instruct me where to post a message at in your profile? I still don't see a place to do it.

In response to your thought on making it open source, I will add that this project is indeed a way for me to teach programming to myself. I continue to learn from creating mini experiments around it to test why things are breaking and to test new ideas.

Thanks, J for the insight. I am going to take what you offered here and work on my design again before re-commenting again. I am still getting used to the mechanics of this particular forum, and I am new at programming. I haven't quite gotten around to considering pattern's yet, so for those (SA) whose requisites for a kind/helpful post are knowledge of "patterns / anti-patterns" and constant attention to posts, I apologize for not meeting them...but seriously, SA, ease up.

Thanks for the thoughts. I need to go back and review each of your assessments here before posting again. I am having a major design issue, where perhaps less is more (and usaually is). FYI, IPrintable is an interface that holds properties for objects that are added to an array, whose backing stores I want to expose when I iterate through them.

Funny how you are so helpful one minute and just as easily could send someone straight to hell the next. Had you not a thick skull, you would have drilled down to some deeper intuition and realized I hadn't read your response to my question, by which I had already accepted another solution to, and thought not to look back at it. Thanks for the warm invite to the forum. I am just staring out as a programmer. Next time, be less of a dick.

Thank you.

So if in one class(Foo1) I instantiate an ArrayList (ArrayList myArray1 = new ArrayList();)
and in another class(Foo2) I maintain an ArrayList reference (ArrayList myArray1), The ArrayList object of Foo1 won't be eligible for GC, correct?

My big and final question here is: Should the reference that maintains the object of Foo1 should keep the same name (e.g. myArray1).

Thank you, SA. Good to see you helping me out again. +5

Let me further this question then for my understanding. What if another class (Foo), which is instantiated elsewhere holds a global (field) reference to this object I am referring to - the object that is viable for garbage collection? Would it still be up for termination? And thanks for the response.

I noticed you named the Array after the Interface (IItem) was this intended? Or does the name not matter here?

Thank you for the extra time you took in preparring this explanation. One last question, if oyu dont mind: Classes that use an interface don't worry about the implementation behind the methods the interface exposes right?

I know of the power behind interfaces, and I can understand design pattern diagrams that use them (i.e Strategy Pattern) but I have always had a hard time visualizing them in my head, within my own projects. One thing I get tripped up on when thinking about an interface is the use of the word "expose". Can you give an explanation of this?

Now I can see the power of indexers. It seems that being able to index with anything (datatype, user defined etc..) is really desireable. I need more time to decipher your example, but thank you for sharing as it did give me some insight. 5/5. Cheers

Clarify what you mean by container, please. Do you mean there isn't a specific collection like List/ArrayList/Array to define the collection?

The file absolutely has to be in a pipe-delimited format, so changing it to a comma (if that's what you meant), isn't possible for the requirements of this file.

It would be for a DataGrid and many of the articles out there are using both C# and XAML. Id like a solution that uses XAML only so I can apply this as a style.