Possible Duplicate: Why cant I catch a generic exception in C#? I have been reviewing and writing Circuit Breaker code recently. The following method compiles, but the catch block is never entered. I have plenty of work-arounds, and this isn't the only way to get the right behavior (filtering exceptions), but I'm curious why thi...
The Circuit Breaker pattern, from the book Release It!, protects a remote service from requests while it is failing (or recovering) and helps the client manage repeated remote service failure. I like Davy Brion’s stateful circuit breaker and Ayende’s lazy timeout fix is very clean. However, I have not seen a lot of implementations of fi...
Ayende posted a modification to Davy Brion's circuit breaker, wherein he changed the timeout resolution to a lazy model. private readonly DateTime expiry; public OpenState(CircuitBreaker outer) : base(outer) { expiry = DateTime.UtcNow + outer.timeout; } public override void ProtectedCodeIsAboutToBeCalled() { if(DateTime.Ut...