Now You Know Some Patterns, What Next?

Over the course of writing this book, I asked a few friends, colleagues, and at least one of my many archenemies for input. Invariably, they would ask about a pattern they had studied in school or used on a project wondering why it wasn’t included in this wonderful tome. The short answer to their question: the goal of the book is to focus on patterns that you can add quickly to your coding arsenal. Patterns that have a quick return on your investment of time and money.

Many of the patterns I chose to omit are very similar to the ones I included in this book. The patterns that made the cut were strictly my own preferences. These patterns have proven the most useful to me during my 25 years of experience as a celebrated and award-winning software engineer using C#.

By the end of this chapter, we will have covered the following topics:

• The GoF patterns we didn’t cover will be discussed very briefly.
• Patterns...