Today we’re looking at the last of the Structural design patterns within our comprehensive Guide to Software Design Patterns series. The proxy design pattern is intended to act as a simple wrapper for another object. The proxy object can be directly accessed by the user and can perform logic or… continue reading →

Dive into the exciting world of the flyweight design pattern in today’s article, as we continue looking at Structural design patterns throughout our extensive Guide to Software Design Patterns series. The flyweight design pattern, named after the boxing weight class of the same name, is intended to be just as… continue reading →

Today, as we make our way through the last few Structural design patterns in our extensive Guide to Software Design Patterns series, we’ll be taking a closer look at the facade design pattern. The facade design pattern is one of the simpler (and thus most commonly used) patterns we’ll come… continue reading →

Next up in our continued journey through common Structural design patterns, as part of our extensive Guide to Software Design Patterns series, we’ll be exploring the decorator design pattern. The decorator pattern allows the behavior of an individual instance of an object to be changed without impacting the behavior of… continue reading →

Today we’ll be continuing our exploration of the common Structural design patterns as part of our much bigger Guide to Software Design Patterns series. Next up is the composite design pattern, which is used to separate an abstraction from its implementation so both can be modified on their own. Specifically,… continue reading →

Today we continue our journey through the common set of Structural design patterns within the larger Guide to Software Design Patterns series. Next on the docket is the bridge design pattern, which is intended to decouple the abstractions of an multiple objects from their actual implementation, so changing one will… continue reading →

Today we’ve finally made it to the Structural pattern section of our Guide to Software Design Patterns series, and to celebrate we’ll be exploring the adapter design pattern (while possibly eating some delicious cake as well). Structural patterns are used to configure how entities interact with and are related to one… continue reading →

Today we’re continuing our journey through our Guide to Software Design Patterns series with our final Creational pattern: singleton. The purpose of the singleton pattern is to ensure that only a single instance of the object or class in question can exist at one time. We’ll spend some time in this… continue reading →

Our next stop during our travels through the Guide to Software Design Patterns series has us exploring another Creational technique known as the prototype pattern. In the simplest terms, the prototype pattern allows for a new instance of an object to be created by duplicating or cloning an existing object,… continue reading →

Today, our journey into the Guide to Software Design Patterns series takes us to yet another Creational design pattern: the builder method. In this article we’ll cover what the builder method is using both real world examples and functional C# code, so let’s get to it! In the Real World… continue reading →