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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

The Abstract Factory design pattern

The Abstract Factory design pattern is a creational design pattern from the GoF. We use creational patterns to create other objects, and factories are a very popular way of doing that.

Goal

The Abstract Factory pattern is used to abstract the creation of a family of objects. It usually implies the creation of multiple object types within that family. A family is a group of related or dependent objects (classes).

Let's think about creating vehicles. There are multiple types of vehicles, and for each type, there are multiple models. We can use the Abstract Factory pattern to make our life easier for this type of scenario.

Note

There is also the Factory Method pattern, which focuses on creating a single type of object instead of a family. We only cover Abstract Factory here, but we use other types of factories later in the book.

Design

With Abstract Factory, the consumer asks for an abstract object and gets one. The factory...