I just came across another perfect way to support violation of OOP principles: Partial Class Definitions (C#) http://bit.ly/GFi1bp 

An interesting link I received from a colleague and friend of mine. Here it is, after a few editions (of course) ———— link from DH —————— http://tweakers.net/nieuws/79440/plug-in-voegt-achievements-toe-aan-visual-studio.html Haven’t made my mind up whether this is a smart way to motivate developers or whether we have now reached rock bottom as a serious profession.

Quote from page 21 of “Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform” book of Andrew Troelsen (ok, quality of this book is a potential subject of another post): “Enumerations are a handy programming construct that allow you to group name/value pairs”