I am a little bored so I thought I would write a nice fluent interface around the Performance Counter crap that is part of .net.  I know, I know the world does not really need another Fluent Interface around something, but I am bored and this is keeping be busy while waiting for my flight.

Anyway, about 30 min into the coding session (going a bit slow as I am trying to use CodeRush/Refactor Pro in place of ReSharper) I needed to use the PerformanceCounterCategory class.  The problem is this.  Since this is a singleton isolating this during my tests is too painful, and because it is a singleton I cannot create an inheritance hierarchy to allow me to isolate it better.  So, what did I do? 

I created a wrapper around the singleton.  By having this wrapper (and accompanying interface) I will be able to better isolate my tests and not actually create a shit load of categories and counters all the time.

Wrap Strategy Refactoring === FOR THE WIN

Singletons == FOR THE LOSS

Till next time,