This is a very good article about ModelState: http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/asp-net-mvc-demystified-modelstate/

C# 6 has a new feature call String Interpolation that makes string formatting with variables easier.

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/846566/What-s-new-in-Csharp-String-Interpolation

Connect JS – Oct 15-17

http://connect-js.com/

Atlanta Code Camp – Oct 24

http://atlantacodecamp.com/2015/

Plunker is a great tool for quick code experimenting with the JavaScript libraries – http://plnkr.co/edit/?p=catalogue

AngularJS is a very cool language.  After watching the Pluralsight “AngularJS Get Started video”, I’m anxious to learn more about it and start using it.

I’ve recently be challenged by freshly written code at my company where they used the factory pattern.  This led me to research into why one would want to use it.  In a lot of my research, they discourage it until it is really needed because it adds complexity with the additional classes and creation logic.

Here are some of my additional thoughts:

• This pattern hides the creation of an object.
• Useful when creating the object involves multiple steps.
• Centralizes object creation so that if it needs to change it only needs to be changed in one place.
• Useful if you have a lot of code that checks if object type is this…then do this.  This really is one of the most useful features I see.
• It could be used for unit testing to switch in test data in place of live data.
• Can bring unnecessary complexity: http://www.oodesign.com/factory-pattern.html , also agile principles, patterns, and practices in c#, Robert Martin.
• Case Switch pattern is easier and more useful in that you don’t have to create a method for each and the calling logic doesn’t have to know what type of object it is dealing with.

I’m digging deeper in to MVC now and struggled to display images.  Not sure of the best folder to put them in since Visual Studio doesn’t automatically create a folder for images.  Anyway, I got this to work:

<img src=”@Url.Content(“/images/ImageName.jpg”)“ alt=”Image” style=”background-color:White; height: 188px; width: 187px;display:block” />