Professional Design Patterns in VB .NET: Building Adaptable Applications

by Chaur Wu, Tom Fischer, Peter Stromquist, John Slater

Overview

Professional Design Patterns in VB .NET: Building Adaptable Applications is not merely design pattern theory. No, no. Instead, the authors show design patterns applied to real-world architectural scenarios, so you can witness the patterns in action, reaping benefits along the way!

The core of this book contains three case studies, which explain design pattern application in each main tier of an application: data, business, and presentation layers. These case studies flesh out your understanding of design patterns, illustrating how the scenarios can be realistically employed and recognized by all Visual Basic .NET programmers.

Also featured: how design patterns can be used in conjunction with .NET Remoting, to be applied across tiers, as well as within them. And since many VB .NET programmers may not be wholly familiar with UML, the authors also provide a UML primer as an appendix.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590592748
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	09/15/2003
Series:	Expert's Voice
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Chaur Wu is an author and developer who has a passion for model-based and language-oriented design. He works extensively with .NET, with experience going back to the initial beta release in 2000. He has two successful books to his credit: Professional Design Patterns in VB.NET and Professional UML with Visual Studio .NET, both published by Wrox Press. Wu has implemented several domain-specific as well as general purpose languages for work, for study and for fun. You can send email to him at [e-mail] with feedback, or for the exchange of thoughts.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction to Design Patterns.- 2: Design Patterns in the Data Tier.- 3: Deslgn Patterns In the Middle Tier.- 4: Design Patterns in the Presentation Tier.- 5: Between the Tiers: Design Patterns and .NET Remoting.- 6: What Next?.- Appendix A: UML Primer.- A Typical Development Process.- Project Stages and UML Tools.- The Use Case.- A Sample Use Case.- The Extends Relationship.- The Includes (or Uses) Relationship.- Applying Use Cases.- The Class Diagram.- Associations.- Attributes and Operations.- Aggregation and Composition.- Interfaces.- When to use Class Diagrams.- The Activity Diagram.- Starting State and Final State.- Branches.- Swimlanes.- When to use Activity Diagrams.- Interaction Diagrams.- The Sequence Diagram.- When to use Sequence Diagrams.- The State Diagram.- When to use State Diagrams.- Physical Diagrams.- The Component Diagram.- The Deployment Diagram.- When to use Physical Diagrams.- Summary.