Professional ASP.NET Design Patterns

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.

Table of Contents

Part I Introducing Patterns and Principles

Chapter 1 The Pattern for Successful Applications

Chapter 2 Dissecting the Pattern’s Pattern

Part II The Anatomy of an ASP.NET Application

Learning and App lying Patterns

Chapter 3 Layering Your Application and Separating Your Concerns

Chapter 4 The Business Logic Layer: Organization

Chapter 5 The Business Logic Layer: Patterns

Chapter 6 The Service Layer

Chapter 7 The Data Access Layer

Chapter 8 The Presentation Layer

Chapter 9 The User Experience Layer

Part III Case Study: The Online E-Commerce Store

Chapter 10 Requirements and Infrastructure

Chapter 11 Creating The Product Catalog

Chapter 12 Implementing the Shopping Basket

Chapter 13 Customer Membership

Chapter 14 Ordering and Payment

About the Author

Scott Millett is an enterprise software architect working in London for Wiggle.co.uk, an e-commerce company specializing in cycle and tri athlete sports. He has been working with .NET since version 1.0 and was awarded the ASP.NET MVP in 2010. He is the co-author of Wrox Professional Enterprise .NET and when not writing about or working with .NET he can be found relaxing and enjoying the music at Glastonbury and all of the major music festivals in the UK during the summer.