atifaziz / delegating.aspnet

.NET Library providing delegated implementations of common ASP.NET interfaces

Delegating.AspNet

This is a .NET class library that provides delegating implementations of common interfaces, typically those with a single method only, used in ASP.NET applications. The actual implementation is delegated to an Action or a function (Func<>, Func<,> and so on depending on the arity of the original method).

See also the Delegating library.

Motivation

The .NET Framework has many interfaces with a single method, like IDisposable, that require the same and tedious boilerplate class declaration and code each time. With closures and lambdas, such interfaces can be implemented once and which delegate the actual implementation to, well (surprise, surprise), a delegate! When such interfaces need to be supplied, an implementation can be expressed more succinctly.

Yes, this will be somewhat useless the day C# gains object expressions like F#.

Implementations

Delegated implementations are available for the following interfaces:

• IHttpHandler
• IHttpAsyncHandler
• IHttpModule

Building

Building the solution requires MSBuild 15. On a Windows host, run build.cmd to build the solution and pack.cmd to build and pack.