In the comments of this post, Kym pointed out that I had been remiss in providing instructions, so I’ve now corrected that state of affairs. I’ve uploaded v1.1 to SourceForge, and the zip file includes an MSI installer as well as PDF and DOCX formats of instructions. As I alluded to in the comments of…
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Structural Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Somewhat complex to grasp, moderate to implement. Up Front Definitions There are no special definitions that I’ll use here not defined inline. The Problem The iconic example of a situation in which the Bridge pattern is applicable is modeling a…
I thought I’d put together a quick post today on something that annoyed me and that I found unintuitive: binding with the WPF combo box. I’m doing some development following MVVM, and a situation came up in which I had a view model for editing a conceptual object in my domain. Let’s call it a…
For those familiar with the MVVM (Model, View, View-Model) pattern in .NET development, one conundrum that you’ve probably pondered, or at least read about, is what to do about showing a dialog. For a bit of background, MVVM is centered around the concept of binding from the View (XAML markup) to the “ViewModel”, which essentially…
It seems pretty well accepted these days that unit testing is preferable to not unit testing. Logically, this implies that most people believe a tested code base is better than a non-tested code base. Further, by the nature of testing, a tested code base is likely to have fewer bugs than a non-tested code base….
