Scope Guard Statement in C#

Question

The Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII) idiom and the try-finally statement form the backbone of the traditional approaches to writing exception safe programming.

My question is: Is there something like Scope Guard Statement available on C#?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 11 '12 at 23:43

3

There's not a direct translation of the scope guard idiom built into C# or in the BCL, but Alex Rønne Petersen wrote up a blog post with a solution that leverages the IDispoable interface and C#'s using statements to do something similar to what you're looking for.

answered Dec 11 '12 at 23:43

Adam Maras

26,269
6
65
91

Am I missing something? Why not use a `lock`? – Richard Schneider Dec 12 '12 at 00:56
1

Scope guards are more about executing custom code depending on how the scope ends. The blog post I linked to includes samples that have to do with locking, but they could be extended to do other custom tasks. – Adam Maras Dec 12 '12 at 01:01
The link to Alex's blog post seems to be down :( – chadjoan May 22 '14 at 22:12
1

The link to the blog post seems to be broken. Could you update that? – julealgon Aug 21 '14 at 14:52
@julealgon the post seems to have disappeared itself, and I can't find a copy of it anywhere. – Adam Maras Aug 21 '14 at 16:01

Scope Guard Statement in C#

1 Answers1