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Published in Jan 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786466150

Pages 314 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Design Patterns

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Praseed Pai

Shine Xavier

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

.NET Design Patterns

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. An Introduction to Patterns and Pattern Catalogs

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

Solutions approach

With the advent of ORM technologies like ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF) and NHibernate, writing an application which targets multiple database offerings has become easier. The authors believe that ADO.NET EF works in tandem with the Visual Studio environment and its tools, and would be difficult to deal with in a book meant for pattern oriented software development. For people from the Java world, who are accustomed to the Hibernate library, NHibernate flattens the learning curve. Despite its dwindling usage and popularity (reasons unknown) amidst .NET professionals, the authors feel that NHibernate is a viable option to write enterprise grade applications in. In this book, for the sake of simplicity, we will be using the ADO.NET programming model to isolate the database specificities.

The ADO.NET library is based on the following set of interfaces defined in the System.Data assembly from Microsoft:

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Authors (2)

Praseed Pai

Praseed Pai has been working in the software industry for the last 25 years, starting his career as a MS-DOS systems programmer using ANSI C. He has been actively involved in developing large-scale, cross-platform, native code-based systems using C++ on Windows, GNU Linux, and macOS X. He has experience in COM+ and CORBA programming using C++. In the last decade, he has worked with Java- and .NET-based systems. He is the primary implementer of the SLANG4.net compilation system, which has been ported to C++ with an LLVM backend. He coauthored .NET Design Patterns, by Packt Publishing.

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Shine Xavier

Shine Xavier is a core software engineering practitioner with an extreme passion for designing/building software solutions, application frameworks, and accelerators that help maintain productivity, code quality, performance, and security. His areas of interest include functional programming, interpreters, JavaScript library development, visual programming, algorithms, performance engineering, automation, enterprise mobility, IoT and machine learning. He is currently associated with UST Global as a senior architect, where he continues to provide technical leadership in customer engagements, pre-sales, practice development, product development, innovation, and technology adoption. He lives with his wife and three kids in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

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