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Articles by Richard A. Dalton (Articles: 8, Tip/Tricks: 4)
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Refactoring to the Template Method Design Pattern
11 May 2010 Updated:
12 May 2010
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By refactoring to established Design Patterns, your maintenance efforts will improve rather than degrade the quality of the code.
Refactor to Dependency Injection
14 May 2010 Updated:
14 May 2010
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Further refine our Template Method example to use Dependency Injection.
Visual Basic
Introduction to the Specification Design Pattern
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Part one of a four part series of articles on the Specification Design Pattern.
A Simple Specification in VB.NET
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Part two of a four part series of articles on the Specification Design Pattern.
A Generic Specification in VB.NET
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Part three of a four part series of articles on the Specification Design Pattern.
Using the Specification Design Pattern
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The final part of a four part series of articles on the Specification Design Pattern.
XML
Modelling Attributes Using Value Objects
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Look beyond fundamental data types when modelling object attributes
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TDD the Anagrams Kata
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A worked example of Test Driving the anagrams kata
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How to complete your programming homework assignment [Tip/Trick]
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A short program that demonstrates some fundamental programming techniques that every student should understand.
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Validate Max Length of Multi-Line Textbox [Tip/Trick]
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This post shows how to validate the max length of a multi-line textbox.
ASP.NET client-side validation against a dynamically loaded list [Tip/Trick]
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Use RegularExpressionValidator to validate user input against a dynamic list of values.
Use a custom exception object to handle JavaScript error messages [Tip/Trick]
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If you use JavaScipt to pop up error message boxes in your ASP.NET applications, then use a custom exception.
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