Roy Osherove has noted a discrepancy between pure object-oriented design and testable design principles, and suggests that it's time to revisit how we think about software design. His current example is how the FxCop team has decided to internalize an...

Ever since I first heard about the LINQ project , I've been wondering how this would fit in with our best practices for database development. Slowly, I think I've arrived at an interim conclusion. Since this posting deals with future developments in best...

Lately, I've found myself writing implementations of IAsyncResult more than once, and as it turns out, all of those implementations have been so similar that I have ended up creating a generic implementation. When implementing the Async Pattern, you...

From time to time, I find myself in a situation where I need a class that mimics the behavior of a mathematical set: Elements are unordered An element can only appear once Sets can interact via Union, Intersect, Difference, IsSubset, IsSuperset...