Lazy, lazy, lazy… Nope, not me, we’re talking System.Lazy

Derik Whittaker - Getting Lazy with System.Lazy

“One of the pretty cool new nuggets inside the .Net 4.0 framework is System.Lazy and System.Lazy<T>.  What System.Lazy brings to the table is a way to create objects which may need to perform intensive operations and defer the execution of the operation until it is 100% absolutely needed.

Lets take a look at how to use the System.Lazy type.

To better convey how to use this type we should first create some context.  In our example (trivial i know) we will have an orders factory which creates orders.  Take a look at the code below.

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There are some .Net namespaces that just cry out for additional R&D time. I mean, how can you not want to dig into System.Lazy?  ;)

 

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