will any AOP features ever be added to VS.Net?

[PJ6]

I've done a lot of reading on AOP lately and have come to the conclusion
that for any elegant and simple AOP design pattern to be possible, the
Framework and compiler themselves need to be enhanced. Everything currently
available is either too clumsy (proxies) or downright dangerous (unmanaged,
direct IL manipulation through the profiler API). Both are also rather too
complicated for my taste.

I would suggest enhancing the compiler to automatically and transparently
proxy when methods or method calls are tagged with attributes that implement
a verb interface such as:

Public Interface IAOPVerbProvider
Function Execute(m as MethodInvocationContext) as Object
Readonly Property BeforeOrAfter as Precedence
End Interface

where MethodInvocationContext provides nonstatic method invocation
information such as parameter values.

This is the simplest way I can think of natively supporting AOP. It's just a
musing thought, but it makes me think it wouldn't be at all a strech to
implement. I have yet to read about any serious proposals for such a
feature - does anyone know if MS has any intentions to add any native AOP
support in the future?

Paul

 

[Stephany Young]

For the benefit of the great unwashed, what the hell is AOP?

 

[Ray Cassick]

I am assuming that they mean:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming

Check this site out:

http://wwwse.fhs-hagenberg.ac.at/se/berufspraktika/2002/se99047/contents/english_home.html

 

[Patrice]

You could also search http://research.microsoft.com/ for AOP to see what
works they have done about this (thought it doesn't tell if and when it
would eventually surface in main stream).

Not related but I found http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/ to be
quite interesting...