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Repository pattern in MVC3 application with entity framework
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The following guidelines are not exhaustive and are meant to be applied on top of the SOLID principles and proper use of OO Design Patterns.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
In this article we will try to understand the service locator pattern.

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Repository pattern in MVC3 application with entity framework
by Giovanni Scerra
The following guidelines are not exhaustive and are meant to be applied on top of the SOLID principles and proper use of OO Design Patterns.
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In this article we will try to understand the service locator pattern.

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by Akhil Mittal
Repository pattern in MVC3 application with entity framework
by Giovanni Scerra
The following guidelines are not exhaustive and are meant to be applied on top of the SOLID principles and proper use of OO Design Patterns.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
In this article we will try to understand the service locator pattern.
by Amir Jalilifard
Lets take an exciting travel to the land of MVC, MVP and MVVM patterns with our sexy friend : JavaScript
by Emre Ataseven
Description of C2 architectural pattern with sample
by Habibur Rony
Basic concept of pipe and filter; what is pipe and filter architectural style; when you need to use it; framework of the pipe and filter pattern; a tiny AI tool implementation using it
by shijo joseph
An extension methods library which could do the equality comparison operations easily
by Ansel Castro
Introduction to ENTERLIB a MVVM framework for Android
by Boris Brock
This article presents a reusable base class for implementing singletons in C#.
by David Cantrell
In which a class that wraps an ADO Connection object and makes it more developer-friendly is discussed.
by Henrik Vestermark
A JavaScript function for breaking down a regular expression into its base components.
by Henrik Vestermark
JavaScript tool for optimizing regular expressions
by Pat Capozzi
In this article, I reduce the use of the MVVM pattern in Silverlight to the absolute minimum lines of code in order to understand the basics.
by ASP.NET Community
Abstract FactoryThe Gang of Four defintion for this design pattern is: "Provide an interface for creating families of related or dependant objects
by dorodnic
Step by Step Implementation of Abstract Factory Design Pattern in C++
by Rahul Dhammy
The article explains Adapter pattern, implemented in C#.
by Gary H Guo
Discuss how to add aspects to object at runtime and enhance them using Dynamic Decorator
by Rahul Rajat Singh
In this article we will This article we will try to understand what is composite design pattern.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
The aim of this article is to understand the basics of the Strategy pattern.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
In this article we will talk about the Dependency Inversion Principle, Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
This article is yet another explanation and implementation of the singleton pattern.
by SubhamoyBurman
This is how an idiot like me explains what is Abstract Factory pattern and how it could be used
by Dave Midgley
.NET delegates and Generics allow for an elegant implementation of the Command pattern.
by Mahsa Hassankashi
This is the simplest tutorial on AngularJS and Repository Pattern for developing professional MVC applications. It includes a source code about practical permission management project.
by Kaj Bromose
How to make callback using messaging via LocalBroadcastManager
by Florian Rappl
An introduction to async / await, popular mistakes and solutions for asynchronous programming, as well as usages and benefits from using asynchronous programming. We will also discuss interesting patterns based on concurrency.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
In this article we will try to understand the Null object pattern.
by ManojKumar19
Server side logging for Silverlight applications using NLog 2.0
by Michael Agroskin
BindingHub is the best thing since sliced bread. After you finish reading this article, you will start wondering how you could survive for so long without BindingHub. I did wonder the same thing after creating it.
by Naveen Karamchetti
The article attempts to explain when to use the value map caching pattern in BizTalk integrations
by ASP.NET Community
The Bridge PatternThe bridge pattern decouples an abstraction from its implementation so the two can vary independently. In other words we make a
by ASP.NET Community
The builder pattern describe a way to separate an object from it's construction.The same construction method can create different representation of
by Jon Woo
I am writing this article to demonstrate how to build an application from scratch using SOLID principles and common design patterns
by Jon Woo
This one will demonstrate what the point of coding principles are
by Jon Woo
I am writing this article to demonstrate how to build an application from scratch using SOLID principles and common design patterns
by Mark Pelf
Beginner’s tutorial on VO and DTO Patterns with examples
by Kenji Elzerman
Learn how to use the strategy pattern in C# to create flexible and reusable code. Replace if-statements and simplify your code with this design pattern.
by Mark Pelf
Basic tutorial on Immutable Object Pattern along with C# examples
by Richard Tauber
Implementing dynamic polymorphism without virtual functions and sharing objects across process boundaries.
by ASP.NET Community
Whenever an attempt is made to access data from the cache, it should be with the assumption that the data might not be there any more. Thus,
by Lalit_Chandra
Chain of Responsibility pattern is defined under behavioral design pattern by G.O.F and used to decouple the command with its processing object or handler.
by Acharya Raja Sekhar
In this article I would like to share my knowledge and an easy example for Chain of Responsibility design pattern.
by ASP.NET Community
The chain of responsibility pattern is a way of communication between objects. As it’s name indicate a chain of handlers is built  and every handler
by Sudheer Reddy K
This article talks about how to mimic classes like structure in JavaScript and patterns in creating them.
by Samuel Gonzalo
A code first real life data model case
by Ranjan.D
Beginners guide to Collector, Translator And Formatter Pattern
by Farhad Alizadeh Noori
This article details the implementation of an efficient grouped regular expression searcher.
by Gary H Guo
Apply components, aspects and dynamic decorator principles to ASP.NET application
by Super Lloyd
A much simpler composite application library.
by Sacha Barber
A look at how a CQRS app may work, with the added bonus of a demo app
by Giorgio Arata
A Decorator Design Patterns revision obtained adopting a lambda closures approach.
by Mark Pelf
Tutorial on Decorator Pattern in C#, showing 3 versions in C#
by Rasik Bihari Tiwari
Dependency injection, DI containers, IoC containers and Inversion of control are a world of confusion. Let's take them head-on.
by Pranay Rana
What is dependency injection and why there is need of this software design pattern.
by Mark Pelf
We explain DI Pattern, DIP, IoC, DI Container
by ASP.NET Community
Design PatternsDesign patterns are recognized solutions to common problems defined originally by the Gang of Four programmers. Design patterns are
by coded007
A Seriers to understand Design Patterns Completely
by DotNetSteve
Using delegates to group, conquer cross cutting concerns and create dynamic validators
by Ciumac Sergiu
Explains sound fingerprinting algorithm, with a practical example of detecting duplicate files on the user's local drive.
by Stridemann
Example of use of this pattern in game development
by Alexander Chernosvitov
AntiBot control using HTML5 rotating feature
by After2050
This article demonstrates how to create public and private members in JavaScript through a sample.
by ASP.NET Community
Enterprise Library"The patterns & practices Enterprise Library from Microsoft is a library of application blocks designed to assist developers with
by mbarbac
Kerosene ORM support for complete database-alike WCF services and connections
by Kenji Elzerman
C# decorator pattern allows adding behavior to objects at runtime. In this tutorial, I show you how to implement the decorator pattern with C# in a minimal API.
by ASP.NET Community
FacadeThe Facade Design Pattern provides a simple interface and controls access to a series of complicated interfaces and or sub systems.Some of
by Rahul Dhammy
Implementing Facade design pattern in C#
by ASP.NET Community
FactoryThe job of the Factory design pattern is to create concrete sub classes. You can see the Factory design pattern used throughout the .NET
by Marla Sukesh
In this article we will learn difference between Factory Method Pattern and Abstract Factory Pattern.
by Samir Dedhia
Factory Pattern using generics
by Anurag Gandhi
Faster way to save data on postback and simplified model binding with ASP.NET controls
by Mark Pelf
Tutorial article on Fluent Interface Pattern in C#
by Pranay Rana
Flyweight pattern is about creating a pool of objects which allow sharing already created objects and causing applications to consume less memory.
by Rahul Dhammy
Implementing flyweight design pattern using C#
by ASP.NET Community
The flyweight pattern is used whenever you have large amount of small objects that share common information. The use of the pattern reduces the
by Marla Sukesh
This article will tell about the very known design pattern "Factory Pattern" used in the programming.
by wmjordan
This is an alternative for "Interceptor in the Wild". The Function Decorator Pattern offers a way to inject new behaviors into existing methods without using IoC frameworks nor modifying method implementations.
by Jon Pajela
Generic Abstract Factory Design Pattern
by Shvetsov Evgeniy
Safe and versatile iterator for user types
by Robin Cheng (HPMV)
Taking advantage of C# Generics to create a parallel hierarchy of builders with less total effort.
by Daniele Fontani
Learn how to configure dependency injection to make things happen by design
by Guirec
This article will introduce you with a set of 3 simple extension methods that can help you getting rid of Regex in many situations
by ASP.NET Community
The IDisposable pattern isn't one of the a classic patterns. It's a pattern suggested in MSDN to implement the IDisposable interface. You should be
by ashish__shukla
MediatR Library provides a simple way of implementing mediator pattern in .NET applications.
by Priyank Modi
In Depth Look: Strategy Design Pattern, Dependency Injection (DI), Open/Closed principle (OCP) and Loose Coupling vs Tight Coupling
by João Matos Silva
A near real world example of usage of the Interceptor Pattern to leverage new behavior without changing implementations
by Dr. Curtis Shull
Using IOC/DI and Repository Factory with LightCore.
by ASP.NET Community
The iterator pattern’s role is to provide a way to access aggregate objects sequentially without the knowledge of the structure of the aggregate. The
by ASP.NET Community
The iterator pattern’s role is to provide a way to access aggregate objects sequentially without the knowledge of the structure of the aggregate.
by Nitin Singh India
JavaScript has now emerged as the obvious language of client side web development. Right from start, browsers have introduced various features of support for accessing and modifying Document Object Model components. jQuery has abstracted most of native functionality into newer constructs and now pro
by Mayank_Gupta_
Immediately Invokable Function Expressions in JavaScript
by Rupesh Kumar Tiwari
Javascript Module pattern helps writing code in an object oriented manner with high web performance.
by Ivan Leonenko
If you want a simple way to keep alive your application you may be interested in this approach. And don't forget, unkillable process usually is a bad design and in most cases you basicaly shouldn't use it.
by mbarbac
Implementing the Repository and Unit of Work Patterns dynamically using Kerosene ORM
by mbarbac
A deep dive into the Kerosene ORM Entity Maps operational mode that provides full real support for POCO objects.
by Rajan Patekar
N-tier architecture of Project
by iSahilSharma
This article provides an overview of the web application framework ASP.NET MVC 5.
by Shivprasad koirala
In this article we will learn C# Design pattern and Architecture pattern Step by Step with a project.
by Shakeel Iqbal
This article will guide you step by step to write good software every time.
by Shemeer NS
Explaining Builder Pattern in C# using a Simple TelevisionBuilder
by Shemeer NS
Explaining Factory Pattern in C# using a simple LoggerFactory
by Akhil Mittal
Creating MVC Application & Perform CRUD operations using LINQ to SQL
by Akhil Mittal
How to create MVC application and perform CRUD operations using EntityFramework
by Akhil Mittal
MVC Application using EntityFramework Code-First approach
by Akhil Mittal
Unit of Work Pattern and Repository Pattern, and how to perform CRUD operations in an MVC application.
by Frank-Rene Schaefer
Using Quex to generate lexical analyzers
by Mark Pelf
In this article, we build a practical reusable Logging Proxy in C#
by Paul Stovell
An introduction to Magellan, an Open Source navigation framework for WPF.
by Fiyaz Hasan
Get a clear definition on Angular.js providers. Know the structure and the basic difference.
by fabio bussu
MatchKit is a .NET Library that provides a set of classes to build patterns to match simple and complex strings
by ASP.NET Community
The memento design pattern is a pattern that helps to save the object internal in an external place enabling us to restore the state later when needed.
by malakar.anil
This article explains how to write easily maintainable and extendable application using MVC
by Giovanni Scerra
Patterns to prevent null reference exceptions
by Khademul Basher
MVC Pattern and it's types and implementation using Passive Model.
by ASP.NET Community
MVP (Model View Presenter) FrameworkThe MVP pattern is an Architecture Pattern used to build ASP.net applications.  It refers to splitting up the
by Thorsten Bruning
Base classes for value objects.
by Shivprasad koirala
In this article we will explain about NULL Design Pattern in C#.
by ASP.NET Community
Observer pattern
by Mark Pelf
Tutorial article on Observer pattern in C#
by Olivier_Giulieri
A generic Web User Interface for CRUD applications generating all screens at run-time based on external metadata. It comes with sample applications for address book, memo pad, to do list, restaurants list, wine cellar, and database structure documentation that are easily customizable.
by ashish__shukla
Understanding CQRS pattern at a high level
by D Sarthi Maheshwari
A look at possible parallel-producer-consumer patterns.
by D Sarthi Maheshwari
A look at possible parallel-producer-consumer patterns. (Final Part)
by Josh Fischer
How to create an API that will scale as a system grows over time.
by Giovanni Scerra
Strategies and heuristics of Problem Solving applied to Software Engineering
by ASP.NET Community
The prototype is built upon the use of object cloning. The prototype creates new objects by cloning one of its concrete classes. The prototype is
by ASP.NET Community
Proxy Design PatternThe Gang Of Four definition of this design pattern is "Provides a surrogate or placeholder for another object to control access
by Andreas Gieriet
Some useful RAII C# helper classes for functionality that does not implement IDisposable
by tumbledDown2earth
A service concept is implemented here for seamless and connectionless computation from anywhere to anywhere.
by ASP.NET Community
The RegularExpressionValidator control confirms that the entry matches a pattern defined by a regular expression. This type of validation allows you
by Govindaraj Rangaraj
This article explains how to make chain of responsiblity pattern reusable with the help of specification pattern.
by Shivprasad koirala
In this article, we will demonstrate Template Pattern reusing ADO.NET.
by Arlo Weston
Implementation of the Chain of Responsibility Pattern in JavaScript
by honey the codewitch
Add fast scanners/tokenizers to your C# project
by Duarte Cunha Leão
Enabling private state in any JavaScript object.
by ASP.NET Community
There's a great deal of good prescriptive security guidance out there in the form of whitepapers and books.Whitepaperspatterns & practices
by Mark Pelf
Beginner’s tutorial on Service Locator Pattern with examples
by Kieran Maltz, Cayen Systems
This article describes database communication using a generic Fluent NHibernate implementation.
by ASP.NET Community
Singleton The Singleton Design Pattern ensures that only a single instance of a given object can exist.It does this by making the class
by Akhil Mittal
This article covers Singleton Pattern in the most simplistic and easy to understand. The article will also talk about Static classes and the differences between singleton design pattern and static classes.
by Sudheesh.P.S
A template based, thread safe singleton implementation in C++
by Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga
A look at a flexible Java MySQL CRUD PHP script generator
by Christian Vos
SOLID principles: The Liskov Principle, a simple example in C#
by Christian Vos
SOLID principles: The Open Closed Principle, a simple example in C#
by Govindaraj Rangaraj
This article explains how to compose Linq queries in C# using Specification pattern.
by ASP.NET Community
StateThe State pattern allows an object to change it behaviour when its internal state changes. The pattern is a type of behavioral design
by Chris875
State pattern and procedural solution illustrated
by Rahul Dhammy
Explaining the strategy pattern using C#
by Anton Angelov
This is an alternative for "Strategy Pattern-C#"
by Scanix
SystemFramework defines interfaces, classes, and types to support a native runtime system with its own garbage collector, delegates, etc. The design of SystemFramework classes is similar to those of the .NET Framework.
by Giovanni Scerra
An introduction to transparency in software design, with particular focus on OO languages
by Petr Ivankov
Applications of abstract math theories to practice
by Stridemann
A Pattern for Identifying Processed Entities During Iteration Without Additional Collections
by Rahul Rajat Singh
This article discuss Bridge Pattern and try to demonstrate it using a simple application.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
This article talks about the Builder Design pattern, When can this pattern be used and when should it be implemented. We will then see a small rudimentary implementation of Builder pattern in C#.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
This article talks about the Chain of responsibility pattern.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
This article talks about the basics of decorator pattern and see when this pattern can be found useful.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
This article talks about the facade pattern. When is this pattern useful. This article also presents a rudimentary approach to implement the facade pattern.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
In this article, we will try to understand what is Factory Pattern, what are the benefits of this pattern and how we can implement this pattern using C#.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
This article talks about Proxy pattern, when should we use proxy pattern and what are the benefits of using the Proxy pattern.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
In this article we will try to see what is Repository and Unit of Work Pattern in an ASP.NET MVC application.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
This article describes what is state pattern, when could we find state pattern useful and how to have a rudimentary implementation of state pattern in C#.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
In this article we will try understand the basics of Repository and Unit of Work Pattern and will also create small ASP.NET MVC sample application to implement a generic repository and unit of work class using entity framework.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
In this article, we will discuss the importance of retry pattern and how to implement it effectively in our applications.
by Abul Kayes
Implementation of the Decorator pattern in C# .NET.
by Debopam Pal
What is three layer architecture and how to implement it.
by Livio Francescucci
A basic introduction about how to write unit tests using mock objects (Rhino Mocks).
by Vivek Krishnamurthy
Using Unity Application block to perform unit testing
by Sreekanth Mothukuru
The idea is to use Dependency Injector (DI) framework Ninject to dynamically target our application to SQL Server or Oracle database either by using Entity framework (EF) or Dapper ORM using global settings
by K. Naveen. Bhat
The article shows how we can solve various technical problems easily with the help of delegates.
by Aleksandr Ulanov
What are Service Objects and how you can use them to make your app cleaner and keep it maintainable
by User 468701
If you're new to Dependency Injection, you will sometimes have a dependency that cannot be injected. This article covers these scenarios and outlines how the Proxy Pattern can be used to solve this problem.
by Ryszard Dżegan
How to not damage yourself when using inheritance.
by ASP.NET Community
The visitor design pattern enables us to create new operations to be performed on an existing structure. The new operations don’t change the
by ASP.NET Community
The visitor design pattern enables us to create new operations to be performed on an existing structure. The new operations don’t change the
by Mark Pelf
Tutorial article describing Visitor Pattern in C#
by Marla Sukesh
Is ASP.NET MVC replacement for Web Forms? No, Both have there pros and cons. Lets take a look at same.
by Sander Rossel
An introduction to knowing what NOT to do.
by Rahul Rajat Singh
This is a small tip containing my thoughts on why we should not blindly create interfaces and/or abstract class for each and every class in our application.
by Randy Maxwell
Sorting during data acquisition
by Shivprasad koirala
An article presented by ShivPrasad Koirala which covers complete step by step tutorial on WPF MVVM Architecture like Leveraging PRISM, Simple 3 layer example and GLUE code problem, Adding actions, Decoupling actions and so on.
by Nicolas Dorier
A design pattern to easily bind or animate properties that do not exist on an element, and which works in both Silverlight and WPF