Author: Andrey Bychko

For over 17 years, Andrey has been involved in programming (Basic, then Delphi, then Assembler and C#). Andrey is a MS in computer science.

Another Way to Localize Application

Andrey Bychko

I would like to introduce a simple way to localize applications. I do not like the standard mechanism with resource assemblies for the following reasons:

  1. When receiving a value of a localized string in the code, I would like to rely on OOP and compiler prompts. It is very unpleasant to generate a project on Friday evening, and on Saturday morning, to get a call from QAs working overtime that someone inattentive wrote GetResource (“asdf”) instead of GetResource (“assf”). Thus, now something crashes or is displayed incorrectly. In addition, the project is to be “put to print” on Monday… Read More

Steps to Reduce Code Size after Use of Strategy Pattern

Andrey Bychko

This article features a few tricks to reduce the size of the code resulting from the use of the ‘strategy’ pattern. As you can deduce from the title, all these tricks will be related to the usage of generic types.

1. Hierarchy of classes involved in magic rituals

Suppose we have an abstract ‘vehicle’ class that can move (the Move method). This class has 3 descendants: a car, a plane, and a rickshaw. Each of them implements the method in its own way: Read More