The other umpteen parts of the series are here in the Table of Contents . A large part of building a composite application is "wiring" the pieces together. You're wiring views to presenters, commands to menus, and security rules to elements of the screen. Since you're trying to make...

After a bit of a hiatus and a fair amount of pestering, I'm back and ready to continue the "Build you own CAB" series . The point isn't really to go build a drop in replacement for the Composite Application Block (CAB), but rather to understand the design patterns you can use to build...

The title is a mouthful and accurately implies an alarmingly high jargon to code ration, but I just didn't see anyway to write this post without straying into all of these different subjects. When you try to write an explanatory article you have to walk a tightrope between a sample problem that's...

Yes, this is overdue. Here is an introduction and table of contents to my "Build Your Own CAB" series of blog posts on designing WinForms applications. You'll see nothing here about user experience and not much WinForms technology. That stuff is covered quite well in a hundred different...

THIS ARTICLE IN ITS ENTIRETY IS HERE. The title is a mouthful and accurately implies an alarmingly high jargon to code ration, but I just didn't see anyway to write this post without straying into all of these different subjects. When you try to write an explanatory article you have to walk a tightrope...

Start with http://andersnoras.com/blogs/anoras/archive/2007/07/04/i-m-coming-down-with-a-serious-case-of-the-dsls.aspx and come back. Just to continue the world's longest run on sentence. Before I start, here's the table of contents for the "Build your own CAB" series: Preamble The...

Wow, an even dozen, and I've still got a ways to go. Just to prove that I can write a short post, this one is brief (because it was meant to be a little section in the Event Aggregator post). A couple people have asked for a PDF of the series when it's done. I'll do my best to stitch it together...

I will finish "Build your own CAB" at least before Acropolis hits and makes it all obsolete. In the meantime, check out all the stuff that's gone before: Preamble The Humble Dialog Box Supervising Controller Passive View Presentation Model View to Presenter Communication Answering some...

Buckle up, because this is going to be a long post with more pedantry than you can shake a stick at. As I was writing this I found some good examples of some of the design principles related to Orthogonal Code , so I made some digressions just to bring up these concepts in the context of real code. The...

First, go catch up on what's come before: Preamble The Humble Dialog Box Supervising Controller Passive View Presentation Model View to Presenter Communication Answering some questions What's the Model? Where should this code go? In a post last winter I said that a coder only becomes a true software...