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When working in applications you might often find that the source code has become so complex that it is difficult to understand and maintain. Fluent interfaces and method chaining are two concepts ...

Interfaces help define a contract, or agreement, between your application and other objects. This agreement indicates what sort of methods, properties and events are exposed by an object. But ...

Apple's young Swift programming language is getting a lot of attention and being put to new uses as it evolves, but Microsoft's .NET stalwart C# language isn't exactly sitting still. For example, ...

First off, let’s get an understanding of interfaces and why they are needed in programming. An interface is strictly a contract; it doesn’t have any implementation. An interface contains only member ...