The VB.NET 'With' Statement - embrace or avoid?

Question

At work, I\'m frequently working on projects where numerous properties of certain objects have to be set during their construction or early during their lifetime. For the sa

Answer 1

The 'with' is basically the 'cascade' from Smalltalk. It is a pattern in Kent Beck's Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns book.

A summary of the pattern: use it when it makes sense to group the messages sent to the object. Don't use it if it just happens to be some messages sent to the same object.