The Weird and The Wonderful

Marcus Kramer wrote:

But do you want to write the entire "if" statement in hundreds of places in a large solution, or one that can be issued a test-case for coverage and validation that will then be validated from intellisense. Any equality statement is dangerous in the old "str = null" vs "str == null" world and thus should be encapsulated into a testable case.

return lst == null || lst.Count == 0;

aaaAccessor Instrument;
bbbInstrument Accessor;
cccAccessor instrument;
dddInstrument accessor;

Instrument = instrument.Accessor;
Accessor = GetAccessorForInstrument(instrument.Accessor);
Accessor.Instrument = instrument.Accessor;

<Textbox Text="{Binding xxxViewModel.xxxModel.xxxData.xxxModel.DataContext.xxxUnderlying.xxxModel.xxxViewModel.Model....}" />

private string GetConfigSetting(string key)
{
    string val;
    try
    {
        val = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings[key];
    }
    catch
    {
        val = string.Empty;
    }
    return val;
}

// In a land far far away...
string EnableLogging = GetConfigSetting("EnableLogging");
string WSURL  = GetConfigSetting("WSURL");
string TransformXSLPath = GetConfigSetting("TransformXSLPath");

if (ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["EnableLogging"] != null ) <br />
EnableLogging = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["EnableLogging"] 

public enum HellType
{
    Christian,
    Muslim,
    Chinese
}

public interface IHell
{
    HellType HellType { get; }
    //some more useful properties and methods
}

public class HellFactory
{
    public IHell CreateHell(HellType hellType)
    {
         //create the appropriate hell
    }
}

IHell Instance { get; }

public IHell GetHell(HellType hellType)
{
    //get the instance of the appropriate hell
}

GOTO HELL;