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Developing software is HARD. In fact, I would say, it's very HARD. Patterns and Architectural Structures help, but... it’s still hard. Like any other architectural structures, MVVM is also a structure with a set of guidelines and NOT a set of rules. In the past few months, I came across various forums and online discussions, where people often ask "Why should I use MVVM? It seems like it complicates things" and I realized that MVVM is very difficult to learn for beginners who have very little knowledge of design patterns and frameworks. As of today, if you will search MVVM in any of the search engines, you will get lot many articles written by the extremely knowledgeable through to the novices, and it is really hard to sort the wheat from the chaff. Apart from this, there are lot of resources which mention few points and miss out others, which may be very conflicting for those beginners as well as for some experienced programmers. I'm not going to call t...

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Although everyone puts their complete effort to develop the best software, sometimes bad things happen. But to be on safer side we can take some precautionary measures. Well, today I want to share some of the best practices which needs to be followed while dealing with any ORMs (Object Relational Models). Most of these are common among many of the relational databases. Exception handling: One should handle only those exceptions which need to be handled, and let all others pass through. For example, if you want to handle a connection issue you should do this by catching the specific exceptions, but don't use a catch all on Exceptions with the clause "just in case" because it may lead to high performance issues. USING: As many of us know, that USING automatically handles dispose functionality. But this statement doesn’t work all the time, especially in the case of database connections. If you want to try it out, then run some overnight processes using windows services....