"Microsoft Visual Basic Design Patterns" focuses on how to capitalize on the powerful object-oriented capabilities of Visual Basic. Specifically, the book introduces and explains how to employ a set of reusable software design patterns available within Visual Basic. Design patterns take objects to the next level, encouraging both reuse and more elegant development. While other books have attempted to define a common software development paradigm, their results can be largely categorized as esoteric -- and none have spoken strictly within the context of Visual Basic. The author successfully turns theory into practice, offering 15 fully developed and immediately useful patterns for more productive Visual Basic programming. And because these frameworks are not version-dependent, this book will serve developers working with Visual Basic 5.0, 6.0, and beyond.
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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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Very Good content. Bad style. Needs more Patterns. 3.5 stars,
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This review is from: Microsoft Visual Basic Design Patterns (DV-MPS General) (Paperback)
The author acknowledges Gamma et al for their brilliant `Design Patterns' book and recommends that we read it (there are 23 patterns described there). I could not agree more, as the introduction to patterns found there is far superior to the one in this book. To take advantage of most design patters in VB, one has to tweak them a bit so as to cater for the lack of some OO features in the language. It is exactly that that this book aims to fulfil. Chapter 2 (30 pages) provides an excellent description of VB's OO limitations and how to overcome them. The main points are further reiterated as necessary while describing the patterns in chapters 4-14. 10 patterns are described, 7 taken/based on the Gamma (Adapter, Bridge, Proxy, Factory Method, Prototype, Singleton and State). The other 3 are: Object By Value (a serialisation pattern), Repository (persisting object state to a data store) and Event Service (alternative to the Event mechanism that is based on connectable objects). Although each pattern is described in detail, Stamatakis uses a derivative of OMT for class diagrams and his own notation for sequence diagrams; personally, I found his diagrams hard to follow and also inaccurate. In addition, his writing style proves his claim that he is a developer first and a writer second. On the upside, for each pattern he provides a mini application with code on CD, which is a great idea and very useful. Finally, a good job was done at describing further insights on the effects of each pattern to COM components. There is good stuff in this book...if only the writing style and notation were friendlier...
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Helpful Introduction To Patterns In VB,
This review is from: Microsoft Visual Basic Design Patterns (DV-MPS General) (Paperback)
If you're an intermediate programmer and are looking for that extra knowledge that is getting harder to come by, then I'd say get this book. It helps make your applications more intelligent and cleaner (much like when you discovered how cool linked lists or trees can be).This is one of those books that I read from cover to cover. The book only presents a few design patterns (I wish it had more), but it is enough to give you the ability to look at patterns designed in other languages and adapt them to VB. The author provides a simple and clear working example of each pattern and in some cases presents multiple variations of a pattern.
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VB Steps Up and Out,
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This review is from: Microsoft Visual Basic Design Patterns (DV-MPS General) (Paperback)
Visual Basic finally gets treated with the respect it deserves in this thoughtful and well-written work. Drawing on the work of Gamma et. al., Stamatakis offers up VB examples of the more popular design patterns with lucid and clear explanations. The sample code provided is worth the price of the book alone. A must have for any serious VB developer.
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It is often said by programmers, managers, and end users alike most applications written in Microsoft Visual basic are easy to start hard to finish. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
adaptee interface, dumb proxy, array data stream, helper class objects, class module editor, following code extract, smart proxy, business object layer, state transition behavior, design pattern implementation, thread boundaries, object factory, bark method, user profile settings, static class members, repository class, bridge object, client thread, abstraction interface, underlying data store, factory interface, implementation inheritance, adapter class, repository interface, interface inheritance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Visual Basic, Private Sub, Key As String, Public Sub, End Property, Option Explicit, Property Get, User Profile Service, Private Function, Microsoft Windows, File Name, Internet Explorer, Public Function Createlnstance, Transparent Class Adapter, Item As Variant, Public Event, Context As String, Opaque Object Adapter, Select Case, Single Threaded, Client App Module, Microsoft Excel, Oatmeal Raisin, Sub Foo, Bladder Control New!
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adaptee interface, dumb proxy, array data stream, helper class objects, class module editor, following code extract, smart proxy, business object layer, state transition behavior, design pattern implementation, thread boundaries, object factory, bark method, user profile settings, static class members, repository class, bridge object, client thread, abstraction interface, underlying data store, factory interface, implementation inheritance, adapter class, repository interface, interface inheritance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Visual Basic, Private Sub, Key As String, Public Sub, End Property, Option Explicit, Property Get, User Profile Service, Private Function, Microsoft Windows, File Name, Internet Explorer, Public Function Createlnstance, Transparent Class Adapter, Item As Variant, Public Event, Context As String, Opaque Object Adapter, Select Case, Single Threaded, Client App Module, Microsoft Excel, Oatmeal Raisin, Sub Foo, Bladder Control New!
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- Design Patterns by Erich Gamma in Front Matter, page 5, and Back Matter
- Object-Oriented Modeling and Design by James R. Rumbaugh in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Advanced Windows by Jeffrey Richter in Back Matter
- Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Programming Series) by Jeffrey Richter in Back Matter
- Learning Tree by Center in Back Matter
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- Visual Basic Resource Guide by TechRepublic in Back Matter
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