Simple and Efficient Programming with C#: Skills to Build Applications with Visual Studio and .NET

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V. SarcarSimple and Efficient Programming with C# https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7322-7_8

8. Efficient Templates Using Hooks

Vaskaran Sarcar¹  

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Kolkata, West Bengal, India

 

This chapter will show you two important techniques. First, you’ll learn to use a template method. Why is this important? Template methods are one of the fundamental techniques for code reuse. Suppose you follow a multi-step algorithm to achieve a task. Using a template method, you can redefine some of these steps (but not all them) without altering their calling sequence.

This chapter starts with a demonstration that uses a template method. Later, you’ll use a hook method in addition ...