InfoWorld

How to use the object pool design pattern in C#

When building applications, you often come across objects that are quite expensive to create. In some scenarios, the cost of creating new objects is high enough to impact application performance. Here ...
ZDNet

Object wiring: An Observer-Observable pattern

Object wiring ties objects together so they can communicate with each other. Learn the details while applying the concept in .NET. While designing software applications, you’ll encounter situations in ...
EDN

Integrating Task-Based and Object-Based Design

Tasks and objects are the principal design artifacts in theworld of a real-time object-oriented (OO) software engineer.However, the two concepts and the principles that govern their useand design are ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Move Beyond Factory Methods with the Builder Pattern in C#/Visual Basic

Practical .NET Move Beyond Factory Methods with the Builder Pattern in C#/Visual Basic When your objects get sufficiently complicated to create, it's time to simplify your life by moving to the ...
InfoWorld

How to handle null references using the NULL Object Pattern in .Net

Take advantage of the NULL Object pattern to avoid writing too much boilerplate code in your application when checking for null values A null object is one that doesn’t have any referenced value. The ...