Nice! I guess we do have architecture guys here! anyway, here's the answer to Skills Test Part 1 1.) The code closely resembles a factory method pattern... but mixed with the singleton flavor making it really unstructured. (nice catch cruizer!) 2.) the return statements really doesn't do anything at...

Lets see if there are some architechture people around here :) Looking at code below... scrutinize this class and tell me whats wrong with its structure... what design pattern closely resembles it.. and how you can improve it? the code is provided in both C# and VB.NET so that it would be easier for...

Want to know which APIs are now obsolete in .NET 2.0? Here's a list by Assembly : http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/obsoleteapi/ObsByAssembly.aspx Here's a list by Namespace : http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/obsoleteapi/ObsByNamespace.aspx

On the first episode of devTrain, a weekly video training blog about the .NET framework that i started. I have decided to talk about one of the newest feature of .NET 2.0 which is Multiple Language Support. Although not recommended for development its good to know that you can write an application using...