Any way to simplify this code by using Func, Action and lambdas?

[MrNorth]

Hi!

I need to write a piece of code that has to be executed in turn, e.g. first A, then B, then C then D. The methods have to be called async, but the flow of events is sync. I solved this by adding:

- a delegate called HandleDataDelegate
- an event called HandleData

The class that does the work has four methods A, B, C, D all with different work but same signature void (string, string) when they are ready they raise an event handleData passing the result as a string

HandleData("this is my result")

In the "main" method I have methods OnADone, OnBDone, OnCDone, OnDDone that kick off a call to B, C or D. In the onDDone Everything is finished and the program ends. And to Control which of the eventhandlers that will get the result I do Before I call the method B, I add a handler to it's handleData event so that OnBDone will be used. And in OnBDone, I remove the handler and set the handler to OnCDone Before I call C and so on.


This feels like a very clumpsy way to solve the problem, but it works and I haven't found any better way to handle this, since the methods A-D have an async call in them. The platform I work on doesn't support await, async and Tasks...

Can anyone please help me to "streamline" the flow described, it feels like there is work to be done, for example can't I use the func<> to dynamically Control which method to be called? It would sure save some lines of code...

/S

[Shaggy Hiker]

It sounds like it would be possible to have a single method called something like OnDone that is called when ANY of the methods completes. An integer variable could be used to indicate which of the four methods was being executed, and OnDone would branch on that to call the next one in sequence.

[Evil_Giraffe]

Is there any code inside the A(), B(), etc methods other than the asynchronous method call? For example, could B() be the callback supplied to the async call in A()?