Programming

Note: This is part of an ongoing series introducing patterns at the Tampa C# Meetup . Purpose # The factory pattern, formally called the Abstract Factory Pattern, abstracts the creation of a concrete class. factory

Note: This is part of an ongoing series introducing patterns at the Tampa C# Meetup . Introduction # No introduction to patterns is complete without the ubiquitous explanation of why we need patterns. Rather then re-invent this wheel, yet again, I will reference others and refer you to a couple books.

Note: This was presented to the Tampa C# Meetup on April 20th, 2011. One of the greatest challenges in writing code is that nebulous time when the code is too complex to keep the flow all in your head, and when the debugger gets too much in the way for watching the state of your program as it runs. This is the coding twilight zone in which the quality of the code tends to drop as you add line after line of instrumentation to your code to find that spot where something goes wrong. For most of my code writing career I solved this by littering my code with lines like the following:

Note: This was presented to the Tampa C# Meetup on April 6th, 2011. Most large .NET projects will use a number of libraries and frameworks. Those dependencies of your project will have their own dependencies. To make it more complex, those libraries may depend on other libraries, and in some cases – on each other.

Over the last few weeks I have been writing some in-depth articles for my Learning Caliburn.Micro series. Today is a brief side-discussion where I introduce a ReSharper File Template to help with the task of generating view-models.