How to make the cleanest code when reporting progress to a user?

Question

I\'ve struggled for the last couple of months to come up with some clean code to report progress to a user. Everything always seems to boil down to:

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Answer 1

If you are using .NET, I would suggest using the Policy Injection Application Block from Enterprise Library (Minimum Version: 3.1). I used a similar stuff to do a "Revert to the application pool identity" for a website that was heavy on impersonation.

You could do the same with your task. You could simply define a task class with a factory that build the object with the Enterprise Library object factory and automatically add a "Before" and "After" message to the task. That would give EXACTLY what you want with the elegence that is required.

Have fun!