Article: Microsoft Patterns and Practices

I came across a good article on MSDN that talks about the separation of concerns using Enterprise Library (now at 4.1), using the Object Builder framework and Unity Application Block for Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control, with examples of incorporating it into Model View Presenter (MVP) pattern.

With quite a number of open source frameworks (like Castle Windsor) out there that do these already, it’s refreshing to see that MS is churning out their own pattern frameworks for .NET Development.

Read article here!

Decorator Pattern with WCF and Castle Windsor

How do you extend a WCF Service that you cannot modify? Or even if you can modify it, should you? Consider the Open Closed Principle. Assuming that you can’t modify the existing service, but want to leverage existing service somehow from your new service, what should we do? That’s where the Decorator Pattern comes into the picture.

The Decorator Pattern is commonly used to modify or add additional behaviour to a class dynamically without modifying it’s current behavior.

Assuming we have an existing service, like so.