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SOLID Design in C#: The Open-Close Principle (OCP)

November 20, 2023 7 minutes read The Open-Close Principle (OCP) is one of the five essential SOLID design principles. These principles are guidelines for the proper usage of object-oriented features....
NDepend November 20, 2023

SOLID Design in C#: The Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) with Examples

November 13, 2023 6 minutes read The Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) is one of the five essential SOLID design principles. These principles are guidelines for the proper usage of object-oriented features. The...
NDepend November 13, 2023

SOLID Design in C#: The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)

November 13, 2023 7 minutes read The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) is one of the five essential SOLID design principles. These principles are guidelines for the proper usage of object-oriented features. Named after...
NDepend November 13, 2023

SOLID Design in C#: The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)

November 9, 2023 7 minutes read The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) is one of the five essential SOLID design principles. These principles are guidelines for the proper usage of object-oriented features....
NDepend November 9, 2023

SOLID Design in C#: The Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) with Examples

November 8, 2023 8 minutes read The Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) is one of the five essential SOLID design principles. These principles are guidelines for the proper usage of object-oriented...
NDepend November 8, 2023

10 Reasons Why You Should Write Tests

February 9, 2021 8 minutes read As many, I started programming when I was a child 3 decades years ago. With no doubt, the most important practice I’ve adopted during...
NDepend February 9, 2021

The proper usages of Exceptions in C#

December 16, 2020 9 minutes read The C# exception basics are generally well understood. However exceptions are often used as a way to sweep error handling duty under the carpet....
NDepend December 16, 2020

The proper usages of the keyword ‘static’ in C#

December 8, 2020 6 minutes read The keyword static is somewhat awkward in a pure Oriented-Object world. I would like to explain here what are the right usages of static I...
NDepend December 8, 2020

Are SOLID principles Cargo Cult?

August 13, 2019 6 minutes read My last post about SOLID Design: The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) generated some discussion on reddit. The discussion originated from a remark considering SOLID...
NDepend August 13, 2019