David Hayden [MVP C#]

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• OOP and Design Pattern Resources

  I received an email message via this blog for some help in identifying good recources on OOP and Design Patterns for those new to the concepts. It has been awhile since I browsed the Internet for such resources and read new books specific to the subject... Posted Jan 18 2006, 05:31 PM by David Hayden with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Design Patterns

• ADO.NET Provider Model Fundamentals

  I hope everyone is having a happy Halloween. Nothing makes Halloween more fun than my 3 children all under the age of 5. We've gone to the local pumpking festival , the community halloween party , the county halloween party , and now comes the school... Posted Oct 30 2005, 04:32 PM by David Hayden with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: GRASP Patterns, Design Patterns

• Builder Design Pattern - Part 2 of 3

  As mentioned in my previous post , the DbConnectionStringBuilder Class mentioned in Pro ADO.NET 2.0 allows one to build a connection string in a very object-oriented, database agnostic way by setting properties on the class and calling ToString() to get... Posted Oct 26 2005, 02:43 PM by David Hayden with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Design Patterns

• Builder Design Pattern - Part I

  Hurricane Wilma caused intermittent power problems the past couple of days, but now everything seems to be peachy keen. She also caused me to miss my ever favorite event, A Taste of Sarasota , which has been postponed to an unannounced later date. This... Posted Oct 25 2005, 12:45 PM by David Hayden with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Design Patterns

• Web Applications: N-Tier vs. N-Layer

  Rocky Lhotka has a nice post describing n-tier vs. n-layer in .NET applications and the benefits and trade-offs associated with these practices. You can read Rocky's post here , called Should all apps be n-tier ? I thought I would piggy-back on his post... Posted Jul 23 2005, 01:31 PM by David Hayden with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Design Patterns, GRASP Patterns

• Agile Software Development Principles, Patterns, and Practices - Book Review Conclusion

  This post concludes my chapter-by-chapter review of Agile Software Development Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Robert Martin . Although I have barely scratched the surface of the book in terms of posts and it certainly contains much more information... Posted Jun 17 2005, 09:22 AM by David Hayden with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET Book Reviews, Design Patterns

• Interface-Segregation Principle (ISP) - Principles of Object-Oriented Class Design

  Interface-Segregation Principle (ISP) - Clients should not be forced to depend on methods that they do not use. Posted Jun 15 2005, 08:35 AM by David Hayden with | with no comments Filed under: Design Patterns

• The Dependency-Inversion Principle - Chapter 11 - Agile Software Development Principles Patterns and Practices

  Moving along with my chapter-by-chapter review of Agile Software Development Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Robert Martin . Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices Book : Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns... Posted Jun 12 2005, 05:37 PM by David Hayden with | with no comments Filed under: Design Patterns

• The Liskov Substitution Principle - Agile Software Development Principles Patterns and Practices

  For the past few weeks I have been doing a chapter-by-chapter review of Agile Software Development Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Robert Martin . So far, it has covered a lot of good introductory information on various Agile Methodologies (Test... Posted Jun 11 2005, 11:00 AM by David Hayden with | with no comments Filed under: Design Patterns

• The Open-Closed Principle (OCP) - Agile Software Development

  It's been raining all week in Sarasota, Florida and all day long today. Perfect weather for playing inside with the kids, watching movies I would never normally watch, and sipping on green tea while reading a good book, Agile Software Development Principles... Posted Jun 04 2005, 03:09 PM by David Hayden with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Design Patterns

• Response to Design Pattern Comments on Jay's Post

  I was 3 paragraphs deep into writing a comment to Jay's earlier post, Starting to come out of my funk , when I thought it might be useful to just make my comment a post. A couple of the comments to Jay's post about design patterns are similar to the flame... Posted Jun 01 2005, 06:20 PM by David Hayden with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Design Patterns

• Single-Responsibility Principle - Agile Software Development

  I am continuing my reading of Agile Software Development - Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Robert C. Martin ( Amazon ). Chapter 8 talks about the Single-Responsibility Principle: Single-Responsibility Principle A class should have only one reason... Posted May 29 2005, 11:35 AM by David Hayden with | with no comments Filed under: Design Patterns, GRASP Patterns

• Design Patterns and Agile Software Development

  Darrell hit the nail on the head about design patterns in his last post . It's my belief, too, that design patterns are better thought of as a solution to a problem - a real problem that you encounter while coding (refactoring), not a problem you think... Posted May 27 2005, 11:40 AM by David Hayden with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Design Patterns

• Agile Software Development - Principles Patterns and Practices

  Total day of fun in the sun. Grabbed my 2 daughters and the family canoe mid-morning and paddled out to a sand bar in the middle of the Sarasota Bay that is only accessible by watercraft. Spent the bulk of the day BS'ing with others frolicking on the... Posted May 20 2005, 03:15 PM by David Hayden with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .NET Book Reviews, Design Patterns

• Codus - C# and VB.NET 2005 Using Statement - Builder Design Pattern

  Let's dig a little deeper into Codus , an O/R Mapper from Adapdev Technologies , which I originally talked about in the following post: Review of Codus and Data Access Object Pattern - GetOrdinal Performance with IDataReader As I mentioned in the previous... Posted May 11 2005, 04:30 PM by David Hayden with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: C#, Design Patterns