Development Techniques

What's one of the first rules you'll learn, as you build large maintainable applications? You'll learn to break your applications into manageable chunks, or components. By breaking your application into multiple components packaged as DLLs, you'll find that your application will be easier to develop. (Multiple developers working on different portions of an application, based on a specification that links the various components, makes for a productive working environment.) When you're maintaining your applications, being able to focus on specific components that provide various small well-understood blocks of functionality will make the job easier, as well.

In the sample application you have built so far throughout this ...

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