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.NET Design Patterns

You're reading from   .NET Design Patterns Learn to Apply Patterns in daily development tasks under .NET Platform to take your productivity to new heights.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466150
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Praseed Pai Praseed Pai
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. An Introduction to Patterns and Pattern Catalogs FREE CHAPTER 2. Why We Need Design Patterns? 3. A Logging Library 4. Targeting Multiple Databases 5. Producing Tabular Reports 6. Plotting Mathematical Expressions 7. Patterns in the .NET Base Class Library 8. Concurrent and Parallel Programming under .NET 9. Functional Programming Techniques for Better State Management 10. Pattern Implementation Using Object/Functional Programming 11. What is Reactive Programming? 12. Reactive Programming Using .NET Rx Extensions 13. Reactive Programming Using RxJS 14. A Road Ahead

Why are patterns required?


According to the authors, the three key advantages of pattern-oriented software development that stand out are as follows:

  • A language/platform-agnostic way to communicate about software artifacts
  • A tool for refactoring initiatives (targets for refactoring)
  • Better API design

With the advent of the pattern movement, the software development community got a canonical language to communicate about software design, architecture, and implementation. Software development is a craft that has got trade-offs attached to each strategy, and there are multiple ways to develop software. The various pattern catalogs brought some conceptual unification for this cacophony in software development.

Most developers around the world today who are worth their salt can understand and speak this language. We believe you will be able to do the same by the end of the chapter. Imagine yourself stating the following about your recent implementation:

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For our tax computation example, we have used...

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