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.NET Design Patterns

By : Praseed Pai, Shine Xavier
Book Image

.NET Design Patterns

By: Praseed Pai, Shine Xavier

Overview of this book

Knowing about design patterns enables developers to improve their code base, promoting code reuse and making their design more robust. This book focuses on the practical aspects of programming in .NET. You will learn about some of the relevant design patterns (and their application) that are most widely used. We start with classic object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques, evaluate parallel programming and concurrency models, enhance implementations by mixing OOP and functional programming, and finally to the reactive programming model where functional programming and OOP are used in synergy to write better code. Throughout this book, we’ll show you how to deal with architecture/design techniques, GoF patterns, relevant patterns from other catalogs, functional programming, and reactive programming techniques. After reading this book, you will be able to convincingly leverage these design patterns (factory pattern, builder pattern, prototype pattern, adapter pattern, facade pattern, decorator pattern, observer pattern and so on) for your programs. You will also be able to write fluid functional code in .NET that would leverage concurrency and parallelism!
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
.NET Design Patterns
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Bridge pattern in the .NET RCW


The Component Object Model (COM) technology solutions packaged as libraries can be consumed through Runtime Callable Wrapper (RCW), available in the .NET platform. By allowing managed classes and COM components to interact, despite their interface disparity, RCWs are an example of bridge pattern (implemented as an adapter!). Please consult the documentation on Com Callable Wrapper (CCW) and RCW to understand how the bridge pattern is implemented to interoperate with components written in other languages (mostly C++/ATL). Technically speaking, even ADO.NET API also leverages the bridge pattern, to interact with ODBC and other native drivers implemented by respective database vendors.