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Polymorphism
Using a shared contract to work with different implementations without making callers name their concrete types.
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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.