Design patterns provide proven solutions to real world problems faced in software designs. The Repository pattern is used to decouple the business logic and the data access layers in your application.

In using the Repository design pattern, you can hide the details of how the data is eventually stored or retrieved to and from the data store. This data store can be a database, an xml file, etc.

Sonatype today released a new version of its Maven-based component repository that supports software developers using the .NET Framework. Version 2.0 of Sonatype's Nexus Professional, a widely used ...

In this article, I'll show you how to leverage the Repository pattern to eliminate the dependency on SQL Server from your unit tests and, in the process, improve your application's testability. The ...