AOP in .NET

Preface

A few years ago I was working on a team of consultants embedded in an organization (that shall remain unnamed). Our job was to create a system that would help increase a key source of revenue. This organization’s IT department had many problems: political, technical, organizational, and financial. As consultants, we, naturally, wanted to overhaul everything immediately to solve these problems, but the reality of consulting is that we had to take very slow, very small steps toward the goal. In the meantime, we had to work around the technical and organizational problems in order to help solve the financial ones, and that’s how I first learned about aspect-oriented programming (AOP).

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