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 ...

Dependency injection is a software design pattern that helps you to build pluggable implementations in your application using loosely coupled, testable components. It eliminates the hard-coded ...

Developers typically use field injection only on small projects and prototypes, due to its inability to support immutable variables and the incompatibilities it creates with many testing frameworks.

The Microsoft MEF can be used for dependency injection, but it does it much differently than most other containers. See how to get the most from the unique features of MEF. In this seventh and final ...

So apart from recovering from a long bout of the stomach flu, enjoying good food again at a “Come dine with me” night (our parents would be so proud) and planning a rush trip to Vegas I’ve managed to ...