The Factory Method Pattern in C#

Let's build the Factory Method pattern using sandwiches and C#!

Design Patterns in C# - Introducing the Daily Design Pattern

Lately I've been on something of a design patterns kick, from realizing that patterns are tools, not goals [https://exceptionnotfound.net/software-design-patterns-are-not-goals-they-are-tools/] to developing and recording an extensive course for my employer and my fellow programmers at my current employer. It's been enlightening, to say the least. In fact, I

Solving Minesweeper with C# and LINQ

Anybody who's spent any time at a Windows machine in the last 26 years has probably played a few games of Minesweeper [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game)]: I mostly work in the ASP.NET space, and I'd been wondering for a few weeks how feasible it was

Fixing SQL Server Spatial "Not a Valid Instance of Geography" Errors in C#

The project we're working on needs the ability for a user to define a polygon on a map, like this: Then, we need to save that defined polygon as a SQL Geography [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc280766.aspx] type in our database, which we access using Entity Framework.

Use VerbalExpressions to Create Readable Regexs in C#

Regular expressions [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression] are quite possibly the least enjoyable thing about programming, mostly because I can't read them they're terrible. They're supposed to be used to search for and match within text, but the more often I encounter them, the more often I lament