An example from my inversion of control talk involves a message formatter.  It applies formatting rules to a string. public interface IMessageFomatter { string Format(string message); } Instead of doing all the work in the implementation of this interface, the message formatter will aggregate several distinct rules.  An inversion of control tool is configured to [...]

A few days ago Dylan Beattie wrote a nice post about value objects.  He explains the idea in a more palatable way than my attempt: If it’s not clear how to model a particular element in your model, try asking “which one?” If the question makes sense within your own scenario then you’re probably dealing [...]

Adding to a Value Object property always adds to it, never adds another instance to it.  Distinguishing Value Objects by maintaining a collection of them implies identity. It is a mistake to attempt to maintain a collection of Value Objects. Let’s take the near-canonical Address, a perfectly valid Value Object as described on page 98 [...]