Design patterns have evolved to solve problems often encountered in software applications. The factory method design pattern and the abstract factory design pattern are both creational patterns ...

Practical .NET Move Beyond Factory Methods with the Builder Pattern in C#/Visual Basic When your objects get sufficiently complicated to create, it's time to simplify your life by moving to the ...

The first design pattern I ever used was the Factory Method pattern. By adopting that pattern, I moved the code for creating my objects out of my constructors and into a separate method. That ...