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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peter starts off with a perfectly good solution to a problem but then complicates the problem . . . and ends up moving to a different design pattern. While on that journey he has some best practices ...

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 ...

For every architect and designer, there are objects out there that resonate for them in a profound manner and can even shape their design philosophies. These can be buildings, products – even ...

Adobe InDesign is a versatile program for creating all sorts of business documents, from magazines and catalogs to e-books. If there is an object you want to trace, you can do this right inside the ...