Nikola Malovic

As promised in MVP design pattern - Part 2, today post would cover something which generated a lot (very well deserved) noise last days - Microsoft MVC.NET framework. After some playing with the MVC.NET framework CTP bits and after reading some MVC.NET blog posts, I found myself  thinking about next questions: "What is the difference ...

I have blogged already in the past about MVP basics, MVP vs MVC, MVP Passive View and MVP Supervising Controller but recently I had some interesting experiences in applying MVP into real world applications and from that endeavor I learned couple of things and get answers on couple of common questions which I would like to share with ...

    Intro RAD tooling style Microsoft is supporting last couple of years usually leads to the code where presentation and bossiness logic are mixed and tightly coupled which makes testability, maintainability and sustainability much more harder then they should be. In case you’ve had to work in the past with web pages containing ...

What is Model View Presenter? MVP pattern is one of the major patterns used for extracting business logic outside of UI elements and by that, enabling unit testing the UI without the need for using specific UI based testing tools If you are new to Model View Presenter pattern at all, you should check the Model View Presenter entry level post ...

  Usually, usage of design patterns is associated with code executing in the lower tiers, but design patterns can be very usefully used in solving problems of the UI world too. Two of my architecture blog posts are covering the examples related to patterns usage in solving the Web problems: Composite design pattern usage in Web UI ...

Update: The focus of this article is to describe the wiring between the presenter and view which are IMHO the most important thing to get for MVP pattern. I deliberately melt down presenter and model (by having the presenter itself retrieving the user data in SetUpResultData method instead to call the separate UserRepository component) to avoid ...

  Intro This is part 2 of blog post series where I am presenting solutions I came up with to some common problems developers are facing implementing the MVP pattern in real world applications. Previously on tips from trenches: Model View Presenter tips from trenches (TFT) – Base types(Part 1)  Today’s hurdle: Using HttpContext ...

Recently I spent some time participating in projects involving Silverlight, Prism etc and there are couple of interesting things I’ve came up with during that period which I would like to share with the community in a form of a couple of blog posts showing the “enhancements” I did in our Prism based implementation. I was thinking a lot where to ...

On my quest to design for testability, I've already covered: Part 1 - Separation of concerns (SOC) by encapsulating DAL code in internal provider class Part 2 - Decoupling manager and provider class (introducing the IProvider) Part 3 - Decoupling manager from it consumers (introducing the IManager) Part 4 - Design for ...