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What is a routed event? This is the answer that is typical on Stack Overflow sites and other such forums: A routed event is a type of event that can invoke handlers on multiple listeners in an element tree, rather than just on the object that raised the event. It seems – with all due…

Assumed knowledge: Assume you know what a method is.   What is an event? Let’s keep it simple. An event is anything which “happens”. “Oh great! That helps a lot :’(  ,“ I hear you say. Examples are in order: The President comes to town. He could come at anytime. You don’t know when he…

Example by Parable and Analogy I have a secretary. At the end of the day, I ask her to: (i) take the firm’s outgoing mail and to drop it off at the post office, and in addition to that, after she has dropped the mail off, I ask her to do something else: (ii) whatever…

For those wanting a simple answer without the geek-speak, I’ll try to explain: Normal Collections Every now and then I go to NYC and my friend asks me to buy stuff for him. So I take a shopping list with me. The list has a lot of things on there like: Hugo Boss jacket Clive…

Synchronous Execution My boss is a busy man. He tells me to write the code. I tell him: Fine. I get started and he’s watching me like a vulture, standing behind me, off my shoulder. I’m like “Dude, WTF: why don’t you go and do something while I finish this?” he’s like: “No, I”m waiting…