Before you can begin refactoring, you need to know what to look for. I'm a very visual person, so whenever I work on refactoring a large or complex application, I begin by whiteboarding all components ...

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Dependency Injection is a programming paradigm that has recently been gaining considerable popularity within the Microsoft .NET Framework community. Applying it will force decisions to be made about ...

Take advantage of the dependency injection principle to provide support for pluggable implementations in your application and build loosely coupled, testable components The Dependency Inversion ...

Dependency injection is an advanced topic. The term was coined by Martin Fowler in 2004 to describe the new, novel and almost magical way that inversion of control containers initialized the ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how a good software team will defer decisions as long as possible. Smart teams will design and build systems that don’t lock them into any particular implementation ...