Decorating a component that doesn't want to be decorated
Decorator is one of the most useful OO design patterns out there. It's basically a holy grail of helping you stay S.O.L.I.D.: it lets you keep the responsibilities to a minimum…
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Dependency injection for Visual Studio extensions
Dependency injection is awesome. I have written a lot of posts that start the same way; mostly because dependency injection is awesome. I'm not going into the details of why (I have already done that…
Repository and unit of work ARE useful
The repository and unit of work design patterns are useful. This is a statement that I can get behind in any debate when this topic comes up. Don't worry, I'm not dogmatic, I have a…
Memento design pattern done (almost) right
I regularly teach courses on basic object-oriented design patterns. Over the years I have come to realize that not every pattern is equally useful or equally well-thought out. One of the most common examples of…
DispatcherTimer with MVVM in WPF
My speciality is backend, but sometimes I have to do frontend as well. I don't really like it, but I guess that's life. Sometimes I even have to do frontend with ancient technologies like WPF.…