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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

The composite pattern and document composition


While representing part-whole hierarchies (tree-structured), the composite design pattern describes a group of objects to be treated in a uniform manner, as if the leaf node and interior nodes are instances of the same object. A document object can contain multiple tables, and we can nest tables as well. This is an instance of a part-whole hierarchy, and composite design pattern is a natural choice here. To create a composite, we need to declare a base class, and all objects should be derived from this base class:

    public abstract class TDocumentElement 
    { 
      public List<TDocumentElement> DocumentElements { get; set; } 
      //------ The method given below is for implementing Visitor     
      Pattern 
      public abstract void accept(IDocumentVisitor doc_vis); 
      //--- Code Omitted 
      public TDocumentElement() 
      { 
        DocumentElements = new List<TDocumentElement...