"The goal is not to bend devs to the will of a specific pattern, but to get them to think about their work and what they're doing." They need to apply critical thought. SOLID - Single Responsibility Principle, Open/Closed Principle, Liskov Substitution principle, Interface Segregation Principle...

John Galioto gave a short grok talk on the Agent Service Pattern in April 2009.

These materials are from the talk that Miguel Castro gave in March 2008 at CINNUG. All the code he showed in the presentation (in both VB and C#) is included. Sexy Extensibility Patterns Abstract: Let's face it, like everything else in software development, some patterns are cool and some are just...

The download includes all the code that Scott created from Scratch during the presentation. The only thing missing is the database creation script. Just create a SQL table that has the correct properties and types (take a look at the generated Table Adapter code to reverse engineer the table if necessary...

Stefan talks about Microsoft's new Software Factories and Guidance Packages. He reviews using the Gudiance Automation Toolkit to create your own guidance packages to help provide a consistent development strategy in your company.