My latest article entitled The Open Closed Principle is available in the June 2008 edition of MSDN Magazine . I tried to present both the motivation for following the OCP and some design strategies (besides the obvious Plugin example) and related principles to bring your design closer to being "Open...

This was supposed to be a part of a much longer post on writing maintainable code, but I'm having trouble finishing the bigger post and I wanted to see an actual code-centric post before the new year. I've talked a lot about Object Oriented concepts in the past, but there's always procedural...