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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

Summary

In this chapter, we explored one part of ASP.NET Core 5 MVC, which allows us to create rich web user interfaces with Razor and C#.

We saw how to decouple the model from the presentation, using view models. View models are classes specially crafted around a view or a partial view. For example, rather than passing a data model to a view, and letting the view do some calculations, you instead do the calculation on the server side and pass just the results to the view. This way, the view only has one responsibility: displaying the user interface, the page.

Finally, we elaborated on the fact that it is imperative to reduce the tight coupling of our components in our systems, which follow the SOLID principles.

In the next few chapters, we will explore the web API counterpart to the MVC and View Models patterns. We will also look at our first Gang of Four (GoF) design patterns and deep dive into ASP.NET Core 5 dependency injection. All of that will push us further down the...