When developing applications in .NET Core, you might often need a single, shared instance of a class. Typical use cases would be an instance of LogManager, StateManager, etc. You can either use a ...

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I'm a big fan of domain driven design. One of the key concepts of that approach are what are called value objects: objects that are considered identical because they have the same values in their ...

If you've created an anonymous object, you've probably written code like this: Dim anon = New With { .FirstName = "Peter", .LastName = "Vogel" } This code would give you a new, anonymous object with ...

It's not good enough to simply write code that works. That code must be easily maintained, enhanced and debugged when problems happen. One of the reasons why object-oriented programming is so popular ...