I had one of those 'wow that's cool' moments last weekend. This sounds really sad and you may think that I need a life, but I was playing with the code for a basic singleton pattern found at:- http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/PatternSingleton.aspx I ran it with VS 2005 and stepped in to the code. I...

Slideshare is quickly becoming the defacto standard for sharing presentation slides, just as YouTube for videos, and Flickr for images. I recently got into the habit to share my presentations there and use the embed feature to include it in my weblog, and this was the same for the " Design Patterns...

Design Patterns Via C# 3.0 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design patterns ) Yesterday was my 2 part session about Design Patterns as part of dotNETwork 7th gathering . Thank you all guys for being there, There was so much interesting stuff about the audience. The conversation...

dotNETwork, the most active offline user group in Egypt is having its 7th gathering next Saturday, August 30, which will have two parallel tracks for the first time in the group gathering. BizTalk Introduction, and C# 3.0 Design Patterns, which I will be delivering! If I were you to attend the event...

The following I will write about is something I have used in some projects to see if it gives me any value, I haven't seen any evolutionary results yet, but maybe it's because I often move along to other projects when the previous one is completed ;) Let assume I have a User and the User has a property...

Please check out my new ASP.NET Provider Framework Item Template VSI installer (C# only). This installer creates an entry on the "Add New Item" menu for the templates. When selected, you enter the Name (minus "provider" suffix) for your Provider framework, and it generates all of...

Several last projects I used a simple IoC container, leveraging Activator.CreateInstance(type). The main reason - simplicity. Once there was a need to go to a higher level, I would switch to Windsor Container. One of the projects used Unity. The only issue was that I would always have to do some customization...

Recently, in KiGG / DotNetShoutout we have integrated Twitter , nothing complex, very basic thing like when a story is submitted or appears in the front page it will broadcast in Twitter and like our feed it will post the short url of the original story (Cant resist to do some shameless marketing for...

In the post I want to discuss the practical part of the Builder pattern and how builder pattern usage and implementation can be simplified by Fluent Interface, it will show how these two patterns can leave in harmony with each other. For how many of us happened that requires enum types to be more complex...

In the post I want to present two useful utility classes that for a long time are used in Java world and developed within Apache Software Foundation. These are HashCodeBuilder and EqualsBuilder classes which were ported by me in C#. To implement a good method of Hash Code and Equals for any class is...