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An Atypical ASP.NET Core 5 Design Patterns Guide

By : Carl-Hugo Marcotte
Book Image

An Atypical ASP.NET Core 5 Design Patterns Guide

By: Carl-Hugo Marcotte

Overview of this book

Design patterns are a set of solutions to many of the common problems occurring in software development. Knowledge of these design patterns helps developers and professionals to craft software solutions of any scale. ASP.NET Core 5 Design Patterns starts by exploring basic design patterns, architectural principles, dependency injection, and other ASP.NET Core mechanisms. You’ll explore the component scale as you discover patterns oriented toward small chunks of the software, and then move to application-scale patterns and techniques to understand higher-level patterns and how to structure the application as a whole. The book covers a range of significant GoF (Gangs of Four) design patterns such as strategy, singleton, decorator, facade, and composite. The chapters are organized based on scale and topics, allowing you to start small and build on a strong base, the same way that you would develop a program. With the help of use cases, the book will show you how to combine design patterns to display alternate usage and help you feel comfortable working with a variety of design patterns. Finally, you’ll advance to the client side to connect the dots and make ASP.NET Core a viable full-stack alternative. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to mix and match design patterns and have learned how to think about architecture and how it works.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
1
Section 1: Principles and Methodologies
5
Section 2: Designing for ASP.NET Core
11
Section 3: Designing at Component Scale
15
Section 4: Designing at Application Scale
21
Section 5: Designing the Client Side
25
Acronyms Lexicon

Design

It is easy to rely on throwing exceptions when an operation fails. However, the Operation Result pattern is an alternative way of communicating success or failure between components when you don't want to, or can't, use exceptions.

To be used effectively, a method must return an object containing one or more elements presented in the Goal section. As a rule of thumb, a method returning an operation result should not throw an exception. This way, consumers don't have to handle anything else other than the operation result itself. For special cases, you could allow exceptions to be thrown, but at that point, it would be a judgment call based on clear specifications or facing a real problem.

Instead of walking you through all of the possible UML diagrams, let's jump into the code and explore multiple smaller examples after taking a look at the basic sequence diagram that describes the simplest form of this pattern, applicable to all examples:

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