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Real-Time Web App Made Simple with MVVM Pattern over SignalR - Part 1

by dsuryd

SignalR is great for building real-time web functionality. MVVM is great for developing your front-end. What if they can be used together? This tip will show how to do just that, using as example a simple project to do live chart on a web browser.

Robust C++: Initialization and Restarts

by Greg Utas

Structuring main() and quickly recovering from memory corruption

Software Principles and Patterns Revisited

by PureNsanity

Fundamental aspects of software design and understanding individual elements of principles and patterns

Application Architecture - Grab Fried Onion Rings And Throw Spear Into Onion Architecture And Domain Driven Design

by Habibur Rony

This will cover how to use Domain Driven Design in your application according to the Onion Architecture. There are short descriptions about architecture Category / Style, N-Layer / N-Tier Architecture, Template Method Pattern and Facade Design Pattern.

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C# OpenAI Library that Supports Assistants stream API

by Higty

C# OpenAI library Assitants, ChatCompletion, FineTuning, ImageGeneration and more

Building a Plugin Architecture with Managed Extensibility Framework

by Nicolas DESCARTES

How to build a plugin architecture in C# ?

C# Anthropic Claude Library! You Can Call Claude API Easy and Intuitive

by Higty

C# Anthropic Claude library

CQRS Pattern in C# and Clean Architecture – A Simplified Beginner’s Guide

by Dev Leader

CQRS pattern in C#, clean architecture for better software development, code examples, best practices

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Architecture

Robust C++: Initialization and Restarts

20 Sep 2022 by Greg Utas

Structuring main() and quickly recovering from memory corruption

Software Principles and Patterns Revisited

28 Feb 2017 by PureNsanity

Fundamental aspects of software design and understanding individual elements of principles and patterns

design-patterns

Application Architecture - Grab Fried Onion Rings And Throw Spear Into Onion Architecture And Domain Driven Design

5 May 2017 by Habibur Rony

This will cover how to use Domain Driven Design in your application according to the Onion Architecture. There are short descriptions about architecture Category / Style, N-Layer / N-Tier Architecture, Template Method Pattern and Facade Design Pattern.

design-patterns

C# OpenAI Library that Supports Assistants stream API

11 May 2024 by Higty

C# OpenAI library Assitants, ChatCompletion, FineTuning, ImageGeneration and more

Cross Cutting Concerns in .NET Applications

27 Nov 2015 by Christian Vos

How to use Microsoft Unity Interception as a solution for cross cutting concerns in a .NET application

cobj: Polymorphism in Plain C

7 Jun 2016 by GProssliner

cobj is a preprocessor based generator for interface based polymorphism

microcontroller

Building Resilient .NET Applications with Polly

22 Jan 2024 by Nicolas DESCARTES

How to write resilient .NET applications ?

Visual Studio debug console for iPhone

21 Aug 2012 by Jaime Olivares

An architectural proposal to integrate mobile and .Net applications

A Simplified Parameterized Query Class in Classic ASP

19 Mar 2014 by David Cantrell

In which a class that wraps an ADO Connection object and makes it more developer-friendly is discussed.

Enterprise is Dead, Long Live Agile!

7 Oct 2018 by TheCodeKing

This article considers what is needed for traditional corporations to transform from an enterprise mindset and become agile.

T-SQL reporting engine

20 Jun 2013 by Levente Kupás

If you have big reports which run slowly, you may use this T-SQL based engine to speed-up them.

SQL-Server-2008

How to Configure AWS HTTP API Gateway for ECS with HTTPS Listener

7 Oct 2023 by Fred Song (Melbourne)

Use Amazon ECS and API Gateway to implement Microservice

CQRS with Decoupled Messaging - Part II

4 Mar 2016 by Rishabh S Ajmera

Second post in a series of articles that show practical application of CQRS architecture with emphasis on decoupling messaging as infrastructure component

The High-Governance of No-Framework - Part 2

18 Jun 2016 by Chris Solutions

The implementation of a no-framework client application using high-level developer governance.

A Robust and Elegant Single Instance WPF Application Approach Using WCF

18 May 2017 by Jon Campbell

How to utilize WCF to allow a single instance of any WPF application without needing mutexes, extra assemblies, or special "hacks".

Class Diagramming Relationships: A Practical Analysis

1 Mar 2018 by Jon McKee

Analyzing and improving existing class diagramming paradigms

Digging Yourself Out of a Big Ball of Mud

23 Mar 2015 by Duncan Edwards Jones

What to do (and how to do it) when confronted with a big ball of mud

Useful code and examples of managing integration server between RTMP streaming software and content sources like IP PBX or online meeting services

16 Feb 2016 by Andy South

We have established a goal to decide, what solution (as in a combination of software and services) among those we chose allows extending the audience of an event with minimum efforts.

server-management

Leveraging IoC In WPF

26 May 2016 by Dilip Nandakumar

Using Dependency Injection to manage navigation and assigning data context in MVVM design.

The High-Governance of No-Framework - Part 3

16 Jun 2016 by Chris Solutions

With evidence in hand, no-framework is the perfect alternative to frameworks.

web_development

Domain-Driven Design: Tactical Design Patterns. Part 2

6 Jan 2017 by Sergii Grybniak

Knowing tactical design patterns within the DDD approach is as important as having a deep understanding of strategic design patterns. In this article, I explain everything you need to know about DDD's tactical modeling process.

Architecture with Docker for Two-tier Application

9 Oct 2018 by Nitin M. Patil

This article will share knowledge of creating a two-tier application using Docker Container.

C# Anthropic Claude Library! You Can Call Claude API Easy and Intuitive

18 Mar 2024 by Higty

C# Anthropic Claude library

CQRS with Decoupled Messaging - Part III

4 Mar 2016 by Rishabh S Ajmera

Third post in series of articles that show practical application of CQRS architecture with emphasis on decoupling messaging as infrastructure component

CQRS with Decoupled Messaging Part V

4 Mar 2016 by Rishabh S Ajmera

Fifth and final post in a series of articles that show practical application of CQRS architecture with emphasis on decoupling messaging as infrastructure component

Uechi APM Web is an APM (Application Performance Management) Open Source Server Performance Monitor

7 Oct 2016 by Paulo Uechi

Uechi APM Web is an APM (Application Performance Management) Open Source Server Performance Monitor written and developed in Java and C # for all Linux and Windows platforms. The Uechi.APM.Web offers a complete resource for unlimited monitoring servers in real time. Have full control of the CPU cons

Domain-Driven Design: What You Need to Know About Strategic Modeling. Part 1

1 Dec 2016 by Sergii Grybniak

If you want to rely on strategic modeling to make the development process more efficient, domain-driven design is what you need.

Technical due diligence checklist

23 Apr 2017 by DataBytzAI

A useful list when licensing/buying technology assets into your organisation or taking on ownership of an existing project yourself.

Null-Safety in the Practical Type System (PTS)

14 Dec 2023 by ChristianNeumanns

The "absence of a value" is among the most important concepts a type system has to deal with.

Implementing Clean Architecture in Go

25 May 2023 by Bohdan Stupak

Clean architecture example implemented in Go

Personalize .NET Configuration Files with NANT

20 Sep 2010 by Florian DREVET

Brings you the ability to personalize your configuration files per developer, per machine, per configuration...

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

MSDN has an excellent section on Architecting ASP.NET Applications.patterns & practices' Web Client Software Factory on CodePlex! - This factory

Record Types in the Practical Type System (PTS)

12 Nov 2023 by ChristianNeumanns

This article explains why we need native record types, and how they work in PTS.

Layered Application Architecture with a Homogeneous Layer Structure

15 Nov 2021 by Alexey Skripka

The architecture of a multilayer application with homogeneous layer structure is described.

Union Types in the Practical Type System (PTS)

30 Nov 2023 by ChristianNeumanns

Union types (aka sum types, variants, choice types) provide an elegant solution for frequent programming tasks.

Internet of Things Security Architecture

26 Sep 2016 by Yuri Diogenes

The objective of threat modeling is to understand how an attacker might be able to compromise a system and then make sure appropriate mitigations are in place. Threat modeling forces the design team to consider mitigations as the system is designed rather than after a system is deployed.

product-showcase

Reducing Packing Overhead in Matrix-Matrix Multiplication

7 Feb 2017 by Intel

Improve Performance on Multicore and Many-Core Intel® Architectures, Particularly for Deep Neural Networks

product-showcase

Building a Plugin Architecture with Managed Extensibility Framework

22 Mar 2024 by Nicolas DESCARTES

How to build a plugin architecture in C# ?

Implement Observer Pattern in .NET (3 Techniques)

30 Dec 2018 by Chinmoy Mohanty

Multiple techniques of implementing The Observer Pattern in .NET

Building an application using design patterns and principles in C# - Part III

23 Apr 2013 by Jon Woo

This one will demonstrate what the point of coding principles are

ASP.NET MVC 3 plug-in architecture using Griffin.MvcContrib

25 Nov 2012 by jgauffin

How to create a flexible plugin system with Griffin.MvcContrib.

Use Dependency Injector "Ninject" to dynamically choose between ORM's (Entity Framework or Dapper) and Databases (SQL Server or Oracle Database)

30 Nov 2015 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

A Belly Dance in Holy Lands of MVC, MVP and MVVM Patterns via JavaScript

27 Feb 2018 by Amir Jalilifard

Lets take an exciting travel to the land of MVC, MVP and MVVM patterns with our sexy friend : JavaScript

Run & Deploy ASP.NET Core Web Applications on Ubuntu Linux (AWS EC2) behind Apache Server

3 Mar 2017 by Sumit2.Chauhan

Article on end to end guide for running ASP .NET Core web applications on Linux servers on Amazon Cloud Service using Apache Server proxy

A Component and Message-Based Architectural Style C2

10 May 2014 by Emre Ataseven

Description of C2 architectural pattern with sample

Create a div based grid functioning on JSON data using MVC with Entity Framework and MySQL

5 Jun 2013 by Rajat Bittharia

Grid based on JSON data using MVC with Entity Framework and MySQL.

The High-Governance of No-Framework - Part 1

19 Jun 2016 by Chris Solutions

A no-framework approach to web development which yields a high level of developer governance.

web_development

Real-Time Web App Made Simple with MVVM over SignalR - Part 2

16 Apr 2016 by dsuryd

Building real-time web user interface for Windows service, or self-hosted with cross-platform Mono.

Magellan: An MVC-powered Navigation Framework for WPF

7 Sep 2010 by Paul Stovell

An introduction to Magellan, an Open Source navigation framework for WPF.

.NET 4.0 ASP.NET MVC 3 plug-in architecture with embedded views

8 Jul 2013 by Liviu Ignat

MVC 3 plugin architecture with embedded razor views: steb-by-step description and demo application.

Learn C# Design patterns step by step with a project – Part 1

14 Jul 2015 by Shivprasad koirala

In this article we will learn C# Design pattern and Architecture pattern Step by Step with a project.

Track database changes with nHydrate

21 Feb 2011 by Christopher R Davis

Use model driven development to keep your API and database in sync.

code-generation

A ContentDialog in a WPF Desktop Application

24 Feb 2017 by Dirk Bahle

In a dialog with WPF

Understanding Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Fundamentals

21 Aug 2014 by Rajneesh K Barapatre

This article is to help you understand the fundamentals of the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC with basic concepts explained along with code snippets.

Choosing the Right Collection

26 Apr 2016 by Arthur Minduca

How to choose the right data structure for a collection of elements

A Model-View-ViewModel Framework for Android

7 Dec 2015 by Ansel Castro

Introduction to ENTERLIB a MVVM framework for Android

SOLID Principles: Single Responsibility Principle -> What, Why and How.

27 Jun 2013 by Christian Vos

SOLID principles: Single Responsibility Principle, a simple example in C#

SOLIDify your software design concepts through SOLID

8 Mar 2012 by Mahmud Hasan

When you design your software, you always should think in object oriented way. To improve this thinking process with accuracy you always should observe how objects are created and managed in the real world. Along with this if you have knowledge about design principles, you will rock.

How to make WPF behave as if MVVM is supported out of the box

2 May 2012 by Elad R. Katz

Switching the code behind to play as ViewModel to get easier development workflow

Create reusable component of partially common operation (method) using Strategy Design Pattern - Keep It Simple Series

10 Jun 2019 by Viral Surani

This article is a first article of a series called Keep It Simple. This article is about how we can create reusable component of partially common operation (method) using Strategy Design Pattern. We will see the need of Strategy Design Pattern.

design-patterns

What not to do: Anti-Patterns and the Solutions

30 Apr 2011 by Sander Rossel

An introduction to knowing what NOT to do.

Entity Factory Design Pattern for .NET

4 Apr 2012 by chuckforest

An entity pattern that allows for extremely high performance.

Event Aggregator Pattern

10 Sep 2014 by Gautham Prabhu K

Creating and using Event Aggregator pattern

WPF MVVM step by step (Basics to Advance Level)

19 Oct 2014 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.

Say Hello To Behavior Driven Development (BDD) - Part 1

6 Feb 2011 by Mahmudul Haque Azad

This article describes the natural evolution of BDD from common problems of developers not following TDD properly. It also describes a bit about Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Domain Specific Language (DSL) which are naturally connected with BDD.

Video Transcoding and Streaming on the fly

13 Mar 2016 by Maxim Komlev

Experiment of Video Transcoding and Streaming on the fly to all major internet browsers (just to video tag) without Flash or Silverlight

SOLID Poker - Part 1 - Determine Poker Hand Type

30 Mar 2017 by Marco-Hans Van Der Willik

There are a surprising number of variations on poker rules, making poker an excellent candidate for a SOLID Project, a project illustrating SOLID Principles and related Patterns & Practices.

Object Oriented Analysis and Design

11 Dec 2018 by omeecode

Learn object oriented analysis and design using a simple method even if you have tried in your class before and found it complex

ConfigurationParser for .NET

28 Mar 2017 by DotNetCraft

This article describes one of the easiest ways to read configurations from the App.config.

Dynamic High Performance Query Builder for MongoDB using DataTables for Over a Million Records

3 Feb 2018 by Syed Hasan Hyder

Provides plausible and high performing data display, for very large data (over a million records)

MSBuild Plugin. The Managing of Most Processes at Runtime and More. Projects Without Borders

13 Apr 2016 by Denis Kuzmin (reg)

Explanation and architecture of powerful plugins system to MSBuild for flexible service of any projects and libraries, the build processes and processes at runtime.

Say Hello To Behavior Driven Development (BDD) - Part 2

7 Mar 2011 by Mahmudul Haque Azad

This article contains step by step instructions to implement BDD in .NET project using Specflow and MBUnit.

Service Oriented Architecture and WCF

18 Apr 2014 by Marla Sukesh

In this article we will talk about Service oriented architecture and its characteristics

Learn ASP.NET in MVC Style: Part 1 - Introduction to ASP.NET MVC 5

17 Dec 2014 by iSahilSharma

This article provides an overview of the web application framework ASP.NET MVC 5.

Let your code speak for itself

27 Oct 2014 by Thorsten Bruning

How to combine a bunch of techniques to improve code readability.

Improve Productivity by Redesigning DataBase Schema

9 Dec 2016 by Riccardo Cervelli

Redraw database structure to improve productivity

How to Write Your Own Siri Application (Mobile Assistant Application)

29 Nov 2013 by Yildirim Kocdag

This article helps you to understand how you can write your own Siri application.

Application Design - A Bad Day With Adapter Pattern and Log4Net

6 May 2017 by Habibur Rony

This topic will cover the concept of the adapter pattern & how to implement logger using log4net. It will also cover what’s adapter pattern, why need, where & when to use; what’s Log4Net, implementation of logger using adapter pattern, how to implement and add custom SMTP appender & configuration.

Binding Web Pages with nHydrate

1 Jun 2011 by Christopher R Davis, Ben Traynor

Bind your UI controls to generated objects generically

Azure Service Fabric - Micro Service Approach

21 May 2017 by Yashashwi Srivastava

This article is a comprehensive understanding of Azure Service Fabric, and how it is a boon for the latest trending approach, Micros Services.

Enterprise Application Architecture: Designing Applications and Services in .NET - Part II

15 Nov 2010 by venugopalm

Database and Library Design for Customer Order Management System

SQL-Server-2005

Best Practice Architecture with Workflow Foundation (WF)

10 Jun 2012 by ManojKumar19

This article demonstrates how WF can be consumed as a business layer.

LINQ Script: A Universal Object-Oriented Database Query Language

6 Feb 2014 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

Using LINQ script to query the Object-Oriented Biological database

Chain of Responsibility - ReExplained

1 Feb 2015 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.

As-Is Software Architecture

7 Jul 2016 by Zebedee Mason

Software for automatically constructing architecture diagrams and metrics from source code and .NET assemblies is presented. Examples for Visual C++, Python, the Linux kernel, Boost and .NET are discussed.

CQRS with Decoupled Messaging - Part I

4 Mar 2016 by Rishabh S Ajmera

First article in a series of articles that show practical application of CQRS architecture with emphasis on decoupling messaging as infrastructure component

Advanced Data I/O using IPC on Windows

14 Apr 2018 by Andy Galluzzi

Join me to create the most advanced yet most simple to use full duplex MMF based IPC for Windows

Powering Autonomous Capability Domains using an Enterprise Event Stream

18 Apr 2023 by Nish Nishant

Patterns used to power autonomous capability domains using an enterprise event stream

OOP Is For Humans (CPUs Don't Care): The Power of Abstraction Via Interfaces

22 Apr 2016 by raddevus

Learn to leverage the power of the Interface to design your object-oriented code so you can test interactions and create more extendable more easily maintainable code. (Also see the Factory pattern implemented simply)

Your App needs filtered data - Use ODATA

14 Sep 2015 by Rahul Rajat Singh

For those who are still doing old school REST, a pointer in the direction of ODATA

CQRS with Decoupled Messaging - Part IV

4 Mar 2016 by Rishabh S Ajmera

Fourth post in series of articles that show practical application of CQRS architecture with emphasis on decoupling messaging as infrastructure component

Decorator Pattern in C# Explained with a Practical Software Programming Example

10 Apr 2020 by Surajit T. Karmakar

This article demonstrates usage of Decorator pattern in C# with a practical software programming example.

design-patterns

A Framework Implementation using Pipe and Filter Architecture

6 Jun 2017 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

A Call To Drop "The Open Closed Principle" From The SOLID Design Principles

16 Jun 2013 by Adam Tibi

We are used to repeat the SOLID principles, sometimes without giving them full thoughts. This is a call to drop an outdated principle that doesn't work in today's development, the "Open Close Principle", the result should be SLID.

Learning MVC - Part 1: Introduction to MVC Architecture and Separation of Concerns

17 Mar 2015 by Akhil Mittal

Introduction to MVC architecture and Separation of Concerns.

When Sorting Needs To Be Faster

15 Jun 2011 by Randy Maxwell

Sorting during data acquisition

Examples of Layered Application Architecture Based on the Use of Sublayers Sets and a Hierarchy of Data Models

24 Nov 2020 by Alexey Skripka

This article will look at examples of layered architecture for different types of applications.

Hungarian Reigns

9 May 2017 by RandyBuchholz

Chances are you have heard, or even told someone, not to use the Hungarian Notation naming convention. Chances are, you are using it yourself. Hungarian Notation is the king of naming conventions. Though many call for its demise, it is here to stay.

Application Design - A Post Mortem of a Bad Design

14 May 2017 by Habibur Rony

Application design - a post mortem of a bad design

IoC Container for .NET -Unity, Ninject, Autofac at a Glance

3 Dec 2015 by Gaurav K Rastogi

This is the article which basically is the comparison between three most popular DIs in .NET.