SOLID principles in .NET revisited part 3: the Open-Closed principle

Introduction

In the previous post we looked at the letter ‘S’ in SOLID, i.e. the single responsibility principle. We identified the reasons for change in the OnDemandAgentService class and broke out 3 of them into separate classes. The OnDemandAgentService can now concentrate on starting a new on-demand agent and delegate other tasks to specialised services such as EmailService. Also, an additional benefit is that other classes in the assembly can re-use those specialised services so that e.g. logging can be centralised.

In this post we’ll look at the second constituent of the SOLID principles, the letter ‘O’ which stands for the Open-Closed Principle OCP.

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