Hands-On Design Patterns with C# and .NET Core

The models used in this book

As a learning aid, this book will contain many code samples in C# alongside diagrams and images to help describe specific concepts where possible. This is not a Unified Modeling Language (UML) book; however, for those with a knowledge of UML, many of the diagrams should seem familiar. This section provides a description of the class diagrams that will be used in this book.

Here, a class will be defined as including both fields and methods separated by a dashed line. If important to the discussion, then accessibility will be indicated as - for private, + for public, # for protected, and ~ for internal. The following screenshot illustrates this by showing a Car class with a private _name variable and a public