Recently I worked on a fairly large project involving C# and MVVM. This application had around 160 projects in the solutions each seprarated into their own layers. As I have been working on this application for almost a year, building it from scratch as part of a team, I am now coming off that project and onto smaller more trivial projects.
As I was beginning to develop a small in-house tool I found myself trying to mimic the larger applications structure and layering but in the end I just had a simple application with several DLLs which I know I wouldn’t have done if I had not worked on that larger application before.
I am just wondering if there are any techniques I can utilise to stop myself from turning a “code-behind” style trivial application into a full blown MVVM application?
Or should I continue developing as I am and try to keep the unnecessary fluff out of the project?
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I am just wondering if there are any techniques I can utilise to stop myself from turning a “code-behind” style trivial application into a full blown MVVM application?
Yes you can easily stop yourself from over-engineering the application. Always look for the simple solutions over complex, and remember KISS and YAGNI principles.
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