I know that generally the design patterns promote programming to an interface not an implementation - and this provides more loose coupling, and helps keep inheritance trees down. My personal opinion is that component based programming is really nice, but I see few people actually implementing the component...

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software engineering guidance: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume I (BETA 2) Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance Here is some of what it covers ! Common Scenarios – How to Plan...

Recently I read a discussion on an internal mailing list on whether or not it would be worthwhile to add a null dereferencing operator to C#. For example, one proposed idea would allow the following expression. object a = foo.?bar.?baz.?qux; This would assign the variable a the value null if any one...

In a recent post, The Law of Demeter Is Not A Dot Counting Exercise , I wanted to peer into the dark depths of the Law of Demeter to understand it’s real purpose. In the end I concluded that the real goal of the guideline is to reduce coupling, not dots, which was a relief because I’m a big fan of dots...