[Mono-dev] mono xml

[alcherenga alcherenga]

Thanks Miguel,

On Dec 29, 2007 11:23 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com> wrote:

>
>
> > is there any work around for that ? I mean using network stream and
> > then use beginread instead of the normal read() method.
>
> Yes, there is a very simple work around.   If you wrap your code in a
> delegate, you can invoke the delegate in async mode.
>
> So essentially, you can turn any sync operation into an async one.
>
> Here is a simple program that shows you how to use BeginInvoke and
> EndInvoke methods (these are automatically generated for all delegates):
>
> using System;
> using System.Threading;
>
> delegate int Worker ();
>
> class X {
>        static void Main ()
>        {
>                Worker w = delegate {
>                        Console.WriteLine ("   Async: sleeping for five
> seconds");
>                        Thread.Sleep (5000);
>                        Console.WriteLine ("   Async: done");
>                        return 10;
>                };
>                Console.WriteLine ("Main thread: Launching async method");
>                IAsyncResult r = null;
>
>                r = w.BeginInvoke (delegate {
>
>                        Console.WriteLine ("   Async: notification Callback
> invoked, method finished");
>                        Console.WriteLine ("   Async: result from worker
> was: {0}", w.EndInvoke (r));
>                        }, null);
>                Console.WriteLine ("Main thread: waiting for async call to
> finish");
>                r.AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne ();
>                Console.WriteLine ("Main thread: finishing");
>        }
> }
>
> > the second question is based on an article written in msdn,
> > xmltextreader cannot read file above 2GB. why is this limititation
> > imposed when it is a forward only reader. or is there any such
> > limitation imposed by mono's implementation of the same.
>
> I do not know that there is any limitation in our implementation, let us
> know what you find out.
>
> Miguel
> >
>
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