Design Patterns provides the standard, efficient and reusable solution for the common software design problems that you face several times in your daily coding practices. Design pattern is about re-usability of code or design and how object should interact with each other. This article provides implementation of commonly used design patterns in C#.
There are several design pattern available and you should choose right pattern to solve your problem. You can also write a custom design pattern that will solve some standard design problem.
Gang of Four Design Patterns in C#
Gang of Four (GoF) design pattern are considered as the foundation of design patterns. This page provides tutorials on Gang of Four design patterns. The examples are explained in C# language in .NET environment.
Gang of Four Design Patterns are divided in three categories – creational, structural and behavioral.
Creational Design Pattern
- Factory Method: Solves problem of creating objects
- Abstract Factory: Solves problem of creating related objects
- Builder: Separates construction of complex object from its representation
- Prototype: Duplicates the given object.
- Singleton: Ensures a single instance of a class.
Structural Design Pattern
- Adapter: Provides interface to interact between mutually incompatible classes
- Bridge: Decouples implementation of a class from abstraction
- Decorator: Adds additional functionality to an already existing objects
- Facade: Provides abstracted view of an complex system.
- Flyweight: Allows sharing of similar type of objects.
- Proxy: Provides proxy class that will represent actual class functionalities.
- Composite: Sets up objects into the tree structure to represent part-whole hierarchy.
Behavioral Design Pattern
- Chain of Responsibility: Handles a request by different handlers in sequence
- Command: An object stores all the required information that is used to perform some task.
- Strategy: Provides a set of algorithm to choose to perform some operation.
- Template Method: Provides the skeleton to an algorithm that can be overridden by other class
- Observer: Provides notification to the subscriber from the publisher object.
- Iterator
- Interpreter
- Mediator: solves the problem around the interaction between a set of objects.
- Memento: Stores the internal state of an application that can be restored later.
- State: Allows an object to change the behavior when its internal state changes.
- Visitor
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