There are many different ways to implement the Factory Design Pattern. In a previous post, I showed how to create a simple factory, a factory using Generics, and an abstract factory. In this post, I will show what I believe to be a better factory implementation using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). If you are [...]
Continue ReadingThe Singleton Design Pattern is one of the easiest design patterns to understand, and also one of the most useful in my opinion. When done correctly, the singleton pattern ensures that one and only one instance of a class is instantiated. In this post we will cover the singleton pattern, how to make it thread [...]
Continue ReadingUpdate Pattern Overview Design patterns are reusable solutions to common problems in software development. Design patterns have been around for quite some time, but really didn’t pick up steam in the software development community until 1994, when the “Gang of Four” (GoF) released Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. In this book, 23 design [...]
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