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.NET Design Patterns

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466150
Pages 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Praseed Pai Praseed Pai
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Shine Xavier 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

Adapter pattern in the .NET BCL


The adapter pattern (aka wrapper) translates one interface for a class into a compatible interface expected by the client. This allows objects to work together, which normally wouldn't because of incompatible interfaces.

Note

This is achieved by providing its cooperating interface to clients while using the original interface to invoke the core functionality provided by the object.

The amount of code necessary to do this is most often small. The adapter is also responsible for transforming data into appropriate forms expected by the library that implements the actual logic. The adapter can be a class adapter or an object adapter. The SQLDataAdapter class in .NET Framework represents a set of data commands (select, update, and delete) and a database connection that is used to fill the DataSet (in the case of select), or update the data source:

    private static RetrieveRows( 
      string connectionString,string queryString)  
      { 
        using...
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