Professional ASP.NET Design Patterns [Paperback]

Scott Millett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0470292784 | ISBN-13: 978-0470292785

This unique book takes good ASP.NET (MVC/Webforms) application construction one step further by emphasizing loosely coupled and highly cohesive ASP.NET web application architectural design. Each chapter
addresses a layer in an enterprise ASP.NET (MVC/Webforms) application and shows how proven patterns, principles, and best practices can be leveraged to solve problems and improve the design of your code. In addition, a professional-level, end-to-end case study is used to show how to use best practice design patterns and principles in a real website.

Professional ASP.NET Design Patterns:

• All patterns and principles are applicable to ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web forms
• Demonstrates how to use the Gang of Four design patterns to improve your ASP.NET code
• Shows how Fowler's Enterprise patterns and the S.O.L.I.D. design principles fit into an enterprise-level ASP.NET site
• Provides details on how to layer an ASP.NET application and separate your concerns and responsibilities
• Details AJAX patterns using JQuery and Json, and messaging patterns with WCF
• Shares best practice tools for ASP.NET such as AutoMapper, NHibernate, StructureMap, Entity Framework, and Castle MonoRail
• Uncovers tips for separating a site's UX and presentation layer using MVC, MVP and the Front Controller patterns
• Features code examples that are applicable to all versions of ASP.NET

This book features C# code examples in ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web forms.

Stay up to date with the latest case study ASP.NET MVC C# code used in the book at the project home page aspnetdesignpatterns.codeplex.com/.

Contents:

Part 1: Introducing Patterns & Design Principles

1. The Pattern for successful applications
2. Dissecting the Patterns Pattern

Part 2: The Anatomy of an ASP.NET Application: Learning and Applying Patterns

3. Layering Your Application
4. Business Logic Layer: Organisation
5. Business Logic Layer: Patterns
6. Service Layer
7. Data Access Layer
8. Presentation Layer
9. User Experience Layer

Part 3: Case Study: The Online E-Commerce Store (ASP.NET MVC 2 in C#)

10. Requirements & Infrastructure
11. Product Catalogue Browsing
12. Shopping Basket
13. Membership
14. Ordering and Payment

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

This book is all about showing you how to use the power of design patterns and core design principles in real ASP.NET applications. The goal of this book is to educate developers on the fundamentals of object oriented programming, design patterns, principles, and methodologies that can help you become a better programmer. Design patterns and principles enable loosely coupled and highly cohesive code, which will improve your code's readability, flexibility, and maintenance. Each chapter addresses a layer in an enterprise ASP.NET application and shows how proven patterns, principles, and best practices can be leveraged to solve problems and improve the design of your code. In addition, a professional-level, end-to-end case study is used to show how to use best practice design patterns and principles in a real website.

From the Back Cover

Implement proven solutions to recurrent design problems

This unique book takes good ASP.NET application construction one step further by emphasizing loosely coupled and highly cohesive ASP.NET web application architectural design. Each chapter addresses a layer in an enterprise ASP.NET application and shows how proven patterns, principles, and best practices can be leveraged to solve problems and improve the design of your code. In addition, a professional-level, end-to-end case study is used to show how to actuate best practice design patterns and principles in a real web site. The framework built to support the case study can be used as the basis from which you can build real web sites, extend the code, and implement specific ASP.NET code.

Professional ASP.NET Design Patterns:

• Demonstrates how to use the Gang of Four design patterns to improve your ASP.NET code

• Shows how Fowler's enterprise patterns fit into an enterprise-level ASP.NET site

• Provides details on how to layer an ASP.NET application and separate your concerns and responsibilities

• Details AJAX patterns using JQuery and Json, and messaging patterns with WCF

• Shares best practice tools for ASP.NET such as AutoMapper, NHibernate, StructureMap, Entity Framework, and Castle MonoRail

• Uncovers tips for separating a site's UX and presentation layer from the pluggable data access layer and business logic layer

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Product Details

• Paperback: 720 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (July 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470292784
• ISBN-13: 978-0470292785
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.3 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Patterns Book December 5, 2010

By T. Anderson TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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This is a pretty sharp book. I bought it for 3 reasons. The first was I liked the author's other book Professional Enterprise .NET (Wrox Programmer to Programmer). The second was I wanted to read something about ASP.NET MVC since I don't use it at work. Third, I like to read all new pattern books because it is the only way I can keep them fresh in my mind.

This book is written extremely well. It starts with an introduction to the S.O.L.I.D. design principles and an introduction to design patterns. It then covers every layer of a common enterprise level ASP.NET application and shows the use of patterns in each layer (Business, Service, Data Access, Presentation, and User Experience). The book covers a ton of patterns including both GOF design patterns and Fowler's Enterprise Application Design patterns.

Design patterns covered include Factory, Decorator, Command, Chain of Responsibility, Template, State, Strategy, Composite, and Facade. Messaging patterns such as Document Message, Request-Response, Reservation, and the Idempotent pattern are covered. Enterprise patterns include Lazy Loading, Identity Map, Unit of Work, and the Query Object. User interface patterns include Model-View-Controller, PageController, Model-View-Presenter, and Front Controller.

The third part of the book includes a case study that builds out an E-Commerce store from soup to nuts. They start with requirements and end with a final product you can download from Codeplex.

The downloadable code is very well organized and usable. As mentioned above the authors have also posted a separate download called ASP.NET MVC 2 Case Study Starter Kit on Codeplex which includes the case study sample project covered in the third part of the book.

One of the things I really like about the book is that it includes the use of tools like AutoMapper, NHibernate, StructureMap, Entity Framework, and Castle MonoRail. It also includes patterns using JQuery and Json.

All in all this book accomplished what I had hoped it would. It is a great book on patterns that every programmer should read. It is a must have for any serious developer.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars As a Senior Software Enginner, I 'highly' recommend this book! November 23, 2010

By atconway

Format:Paperback

Let me begin by stating that Professional ASP.NET Design Patterns By Scott Millett is a fantastic book that was worth every minute I spent reading it. The author, Scott Millett, is a great community leader and extends himself in several ways including spending time on the forums contributing to others into his strong insight of Domain Driven Design, Architecture, and Design Patterns. He has extended that helpfulness by writing this book that takes a dive into Design Patterns and Architecture from an ASP.NET UI centric view. However I would not get too fixated on the 'ASP.NET' in the title as probably more than half of this book could just as well have been called Professional .NET Design Patterns as it provides design patterns that are truly useful to all types of .NET applications once moving below the topmost UI layer. There are several chapters devoted to ASP.NET patterns including MVC which makes this still focused mostly on ASP.NET, but I would still recommend this book to WinForms and other SmartClient developers as well.

This book's target audience is broad and could reach to several different types of software engineers. It is probably suited best for Senior Engineers, Architects, Leads, or generally seasoned developers. It is not really an introductory book (this is a good thing; there are plenty of those books out there already), so if you don't know what acronyms like OOP, OOD, UI, BLL, or DAL mean at a minimum already then you may want to read something along the lines of an introduction to Object Oriented Programming book 1st to gain some traction. This is however a terrific book for those that do have a lot of experience with a traditional 3-layer logical architectures, and are looking to bridge the gap to more sophisticated architectures using Domain Driven Design and other implementations of either Martin Fowler's or the GoF design patterns within.

Scott does a wonderful job of layering the book (chapters) as you would an application. Each chapter takes either a single layer or design pattern and goes into detail on its responsibilities, relationship to other layers, and implementation with easy to follow along code samples. In fact I highly recommend downloading the code samples from the WROX website ([...]) The entire set of code samples are in C#, but don't let this slow up any VB.NET devs out there. I am actually a VB.NET developer (C# in the past) but we all know that you don't get too far in this industry without reading both so this should not be any problem.

The 1st third of the book (roughly) concentrates mostly on individual logical layers of an application and how they work together to build an application. Within each layer, there are examples of Design Patterns (both Fowler and GoF) that are used and shown why they are useful within that particular layer. There is also a section on IoC and DI which I really enjoyed and are reoccurring patterns in the layers throughout the book. The 2nd third of the book concentrates mostly on ASP.NET architectures and techniques like MVC, MVP, and AJAX patterns. The last third is devoted to a case study example that uses the knowledge gained from the previous chapters. The book reads and flows extremely well and was one of the reasons I enjoyed reading it so much.

I will also note that this is a great book for those of you familiar or have read the GoF book Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software. As we all know code examples used to conceptually explain design patterns are not always critical, but Scott's book puts a fresh '.NET' perspective on several of the GoF patterns which is really nice. This helps to see how these patterns apply directly in .NET instead of taking the SmallTalk or C++ examples from the GoF book and translating them into .NET.

The book wraps up with a full case study example putting all of the chapters together (Agath's e-commerce store). This again strengthens the flow of the book with an extended example using everything learned from the previous chapters, This solution is included in the 'Chapter 14' folder in the downloadable code and is a nice reference to show everything from the book.

Well I will wrap this review up by saying this book is one for the shelf of 'Top Reference' books that go right next to the development machine. This is one of those books that you think, "How do I do that in the Repository Layer...", and then pick up the book to get a refresher. I would definitely recommend this book and keep an eye out for future books from Scott Millett. Nice Job!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Design guidance for intermediate-advanced developers October 15, 2010

By Silverstein

Format:Paperback

This book is a concise guide to most of the GoF design patterns and Fowler's enterprise architecture patterns, combined with contemporary design principles, and set in context.

The text is divided into the standard enterprise application layers, and then the GoF patterns are introduced within each layer to address the concerns of that layer. Each GoF pattern is prefaced with an explanation of where and why you would want to use it and a UML diagram, and then demonstrated through code. You can get a full list of the covered patterns from the TOC.

The text is direct and economical, and, thankfully lacks a lot of the filler tactics and editorializing that seem to characterize most development books these days. It's heavy on code samples, and the samples are also refreshingly concise (e.g., automatic properties instead of space-wasting explicit property bodies, single-responsibility methods and classes instead of bloated catch-all classes dragged out over three pages). Obviously, since the code is meant to demonstrate the design principles the book espouses, the code is relatively concise and easy to read. There are a lot of nice diagrams and ERDs, and the leading frameworks (e.g., NHibernate for O/RM) are demonstrated well.

Overall, it's a pretty good reference for how to layout an enterprise application and how to apply the standard patterns and design principles. I think it's best for those already familiar with the concepts and looking for a reference to take to work with them. I think it's also a good gateway to get people to read Design Patterns, PoEAA, Enterprise Integration Patterns, etc.

There's not much I can really find fault with. Obviously, there are more patterns that could be included, and it could go deeper on various topics, but it achieves what it sets out to do. If I lost my copy, I would buy it again.