When building applications, you often come across objects that are quite expensive to create. In some scenarios, the cost of creating new objects is high enough to impact application performance. Here ...

Object wiring ties objects together so they can communicate with each other. Learn the details while applying the concept in .NET. While designing software applications, you’ll encounter situations in ...

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) scientists have shown that they can tell what kind of object a person is looking at -- a face, a house, a shoe, a chair -- by the pattern of brain activity ...

The Prototype Pattern involves cloning objects. Learn how to create both deep and shallow clones for instances in your program where creating a new object won't work. The Prototype Pattern is a common ...

Peter starts off with a perfectly good solution to a problem but then complicates the problem . . . and ends up moving to a different design pattern. While on that journey he has some best practices ...

Take advantage of the NULL Object pattern to avoid writing too much boilerplate code in your application when checking for null values A null object is one that doesn’t have any referenced value. The ...