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Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices published

Most of my spare time in the last few months has been taken up by writing Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices . This has now been published and is available through publisher (no longer pre-order) at http://bit.ly/Px43Pw . The pre-order price is still available for a limited time. Amazon still has it out...

Posted to Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog by PeterRitchie on Sat, Aug 25 2012
Filed under: Filed under: C#, DevCenterPost, Software Development Practices, Software Development Guidance, Visual Studio 2010, Software Development Principles, Visual studio 2010 Best Practices
Software Design and First Principles–Part 0: Concepts of Object Orientation

I often compare software development with building houses or woodworking. I sometimes even compare software development with the vocation of electrician. In each of these other vocations, craftspeople need to go through a period of apprenticeship and mentoring before being “allowed” to practice...

Posted to Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog by PeterRitchie on Thu, Feb 23 2012
Filed under: Filed under: C#, .NET Development, Software Development Practices, Software Development Guidance, Software Development Principles
Criteria for Success

I was having a conversation with a client recently and the topic of “11th hour” came up. He seemed to think it wasn’t possible to deliver a software project without some sort of “11th hour” panic. I disagreed I disagree because I’ve done it on small and large projects. Don’t get...

Posted to Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog by PeterRitchie on Sat, May 7 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Software Development, Design/Coding Guidance, Software Development Practices, Software Development Guidance
Evolving code over time

Given economics, time constraints, resource limitations, etc.; you can't write all the functionality for a given solution for a single release. Even if you weren't limited by these constraints, you're likely to get changing requirements as development progresses and everyone learns more about...

Posted to Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog by PeterRitchie on Mon, Mar 30 2009
Filed under: Filed under: C#, .NET Development, Software Development, Design/Coding Guidance, Software Development Practices, Software Development Guidance
DevTeach 2009 Vancouver

The schedule for DevTeach 2009 Vancouver has been announced ( http://www.devteach.com/ ). There’s lots of great software development sessions from some of the leaders in our industry. If you’re planning on improving yourself, this is the conference to go to. Not only can you attend excellent...

Posted to Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog by PeterRitchie on Thu, Mar 26 2009
Filed under: Filed under: C#, .NET Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 2005, .NET 2.0, Design/Coding Guidance, .NET 3.x, Visual Studio 2008, C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, DevTeach, DDD, Software Development Practices, Software Development Guidance
Developing with Source Code Control - Best Practices Part 2

[Edited 14-Mar-09: clarified generated code SCC practice] This edition provides SCC vocabulary and some more practices that make development life easier. Vocabulary Trunk The root of the project or database. Sometimes called mainline or baseline; depending on the SCC structure, this is where most of...

Posted to Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog by PeterRitchie on Wed, Mar 11 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Software Development, Software Development Practices, Software Development Guidance
A Upcoming Pandemic of Domain Anaemia

There's a well-known anti-pattern called the anaemic domain model[1][2]. This anti-pattern basically says domain entities, chronically, have little or no behaviour (remember, object-oriented design is about attributes and behaviour). It should be obvious that a domain model that isn't truly object...

Posted to Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog by PeterRitchie on Thu, Jan 29 2009
Filed under: Filed under: .NET Development, Software Development, Design/Coding Guidance, Microsoft, Patterns, OOD, AntiPattern, DDD, ALT.NET, Software Development Practices, Software Development Guidance, Microsoft Patterns and Practices
Developing with Source Code Control Best Practices Part 1

This post will detail some first principles about source code control (SCC) and provide what I consider the most basic of practices that every dev should follow. What is SCC? SCC provides developers the ability to keep a history of their changes. SCC allows developers the ability to group file changes...

Posted to Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog by PeterRitchie on Sat, Oct 18 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Software Development, Software Development Practices, Software Development Guidance

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