--- title: "Regulator 2005 & GUI threads goo- news on both?" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/5/2/regulator-2005-amp-gui-threads-goo-news-on-both.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/5/2/regulator-2005-amp-gui-threads-goo-news-on-both.html" published: "2005-05-02T19:21:00" updated: "2005-05-02T19:21:00" tags: ["Architecture", "Cool Tools", "Regex"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "I've kept mostly quiet for the past N weeks because of holidays+illness. It gave me time to geek out and start working on a fresh new version of The Regulator (aptly dubbed \"Regulator 2005\"). Boy am I a happy camper.…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Regulator 2005 & GUI threads goo- news on both? By Roy Osherove May 2, 2005 In [Architecture](https://osherove.com/blog/category/architecture), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools), [Regex](https://osherove.com/blog/category/regex) **Historical article** · Originally published May 2, 2005; technical details may be outdated. I've kept mostly quiet for the past N weeks because of holidays+illness. It gave me time to geek out and start working on a fresh new version of [The Regulator](https://osherove.com/) (aptly dubbed "Regulator 2005"). Boy am I a happy camper. I'm coding nights, I'm coding at lunch breaks, I'm thrilled to be solving new problems. I plan to "Launch" it at TechEd Europe with maybe a small contest to get a special prize - a customized version of The Regulator for the winner with special splash page and all. What do you think? For example,  one of the cool things I had to solve was the whole GUI threading glue that you have to do when doing a truly rich GUI app with actually \*responds\* to user actions while doing something. I developed a whole "application block" (or maybe just a helper class or two..) that allow you do solve the threading thing more easily. A sneak preview might look like this: **public void DoSomeGUIStuff()** **{**    **if(invoker.InvokeSafely(this))**       **return;**    **TextBox1.Text = "Something";** **}** **public void DoSomeGUIStuff(object sender,EventArgs e)** **{**    **if(invoker.InvokeSafely(this,sender,e))**       **return;**    **TextBox1.Text = "Something";** **}** At the simplest case this is all you need to make the method UI thread safe. For more complex methods, it gets, well, a little more complex, but not very much. There's more, but I'll save that for when I've tested it thoroughly enough. Oh, did I mention that it was written with unit tests? ## More in Architecture [All posts in Architecture](https://osherove.com/blog/category/architecture) - Jun 5, 2005 ### [What's legacy code?](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/5/whats-legacy-code.html) - Jun 5, 2005 ### [VS 2005 Team System Modeling Strategy and FAQ](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/5/vs-2005-team-system-modeling-strategy-and-faq.html) - May 2, 2005 ### [What does SOA really mean? One big hype machine](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/5/2/what-does-soa-really-mean-one-big-hype-machine.html) - Apr 29, 2005 ### [What does Indigo really mean?](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/4/29/what-does-indigo-really-mean.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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