Stop myself from over-complicating applications

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Published on 2012-09-15T19:45:50Z Indexed on 2012/09/16 3:51 UTC
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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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