Category Archives: Patterns

Two Screencasts on How to Demystify Spaghetti Code

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Patrick Smacchia

In my consultant career, no matter the kind of company I visited, from the tiny startup to the largest fortune 500 corporation, they all have in common to be entangled in spaghetti. Spaghetti means poorly structured code. Spaghetti means high maintenance and … Continue reading →

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Validating Architecture through LINQ Query

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Patrick Smacchia

These days we are restructuring the NDepend code base to make it more suited to welcome future features implementation. Here is below the new architecture of the NDepend.UI assembly, made of around 50.000 lines of code, shown through a Dependency Structure … Continue reading →

Also posted in C#, Code Dependency, Code Query, Code Rule, code structure, Code visualization, CQLinq, Dependency Matrix, Layer, LINQ, namespace, namespaces, NDepend, Pattern, Performance | 2 Comments

Identify Code Structure Patterns at a Glance

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Patrick Smacchia

Normal 0 21 false false false FR X-NONE X-NONE I think that caring for dependencies is the best thing you can do to make your program maintainable and to fight against complexity. I’d like here to provide some tips to … Continue reading →

Also posted in Acyclic componentization, complexity, coupling, Cycle, Dependencies, DSM, high cohesion, Indirect Dependency, Layer, matrix | 4 Comments

Container-managed applications

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Glenn Block

OK, so you’ve past the point of deciding whether or not you will use an IoC container. Then you find out that is just the beginning of the road. How does that container fit in your application design? Should you … Continue reading →

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MVP with MEF

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Glenn Block

Krzysztof had a question on StackOverflow around doing MVP triads wtith MEF. He came up with a way to do it that he wasn’t happy with and which I told him was pretty hacky After chatting with Krzysztof I took … Continue reading →

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Finding the right level of coupling

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Glenn Block

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tammys_world/1785770650/ This is a follow up from my previous post on Composite extensions for Win Forms. Early on as we started the development of Prism, we had a few decisions to make around our coupling to WPF. We knew that … Continue reading →

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Yet another post on MVP vs MVC

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Glenn Block

I can see that StackOverflow.com can turn into addiction and I can’t afford another one Anyway while browsing, I noticed a question on MVP vs MVC. I just couldn’t resist…oh and I did add something on Presentation Model. I won’t … Continue reading →

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Rik on Design Patterns

Posted on July 16, 2008 by davelaribee

Rik Bardrof, one of the senior developers at Xclaim, recently gave a presentation to the Syracuse .NET Developer’s Group. I was in town, so I captured the talk. In it, he covers a few patterns/principles we use extensively in our … Continue reading →

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Hook Methods

Posted on June 16, 2008 by davelaribee

I’ve written about the template method pattern before. For my money it’s still a very useful pattern for building super lightweight frameworks and enabling the open-closed principle which states: Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, … Continue reading →

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Super Models, Part 1: Sexy Specifications

Posted on June 15, 2008 by davelaribee

In Domain-Driven Design we turn to the specification pattern when we want to check whether an object matches some criteria. I think specification is the oft-forgotten bastard child pattern of the domain model pattern language. I know I frequently turn … Continue reading →

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