Factory Pattern

Creating the right implementation behind a focused construction boundary.

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Writing6 October 2019
Dependency Injection? No Thank You!
Dependency injection exposes private collaborators to callers when used for every internal relationship. Keep classes self-contained and let business code choose real variation.
Writing10 September 2019
Factory Pattern: The Enabler of Polymorphism
A Factory selects and constructs a member of a class family from meaningful input, letting clients use the shared contract while the Factory owns recurring implementation choices.
Writing10 February 2013
Factory Method Pattern: The Most Beautiful Pattern We Lost
Factory Method lets consumer subclasses choose dependencies through an overridable creation hook. C# member managers and Windows Forms show its two class families, distinguishing it from a Factory.

Dependency Injection? No Thank You!