Professional ASP.NET Design Patterns

FOREWORD

Houses get built, manufacturing plants create stuff, and automobiles come off assembly lines enabled by well-known and agreed upon patterns for building things. For well-understood tasks there's no reason to reinvent the wheel.

As Christopher Alexander said:

Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice.

When the Gang of Four (that you'll learn about in a minute!) wrote the first Design Patterns book for software engineers, it was the first time that patterns had been formally expressed in our discipline. In this book, you'll learn not just about patterns, but also antipatterns and what we can learn from them as well.

Sometimes it's not always clear what the best practice is, and mapping design pattern language to tangible usage within ASP.NET can be a challenge. Scott Millett's book takes those time tested design patterns, teaches you how to read them, and then applies them in a concrete and specific way to the problems that we as ASP.NET programmers have to deal with every day.

Filled with lots of code, instead of endless prose like some books, this book strives to connect the dots and make these patterns real, applicable and relevant in your daily life as a developer. In doing so, Millett calls upon not just what comes out of the box with ASP.NET from Microsoft, but ...