C# - Gang Of Four - Design Patterns, Elements Of Reusable Object Oriented Software Erich Gamma, John M. Vlissides, Ralph Johnson, Richard Helm
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

This Pattern was first introduced in the book "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software", which is also known as the GoF book. Basically it says that if you have a set of operations which are If you're familiar with languages like Java or C#, you might have already noticed that using an abstract class and making the concrete classes inherit from this one will implement this pattern. Design patterns gained popularity in computer science after the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software was published in 1994 by the so-called "Gang of Four" (Gamma et al.). GOF Book :Design Patterns – Elements of reusable object-oriented software. €The abstract factory pattern provides an interface for creating families of related or . Microsoft: Exploring the factory design pattern. It's the database developer's equivalent of the famous GoF (“Gang of Four”) design patterns book, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. I'd recommend the GoF Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software over the Head First Design Patterns book in this case, I think it simply had more information. Reviewing Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by the Gang of Four. Design Patterns - Factory Method PatternA simple example of the Factory Method, design pattern in C#From Sketch to Oil PaintingPeople only remember the oil paintings, not the sketches. This DZone Refcard provides a quick reference to the original 23 Gang of Four design patterns, as listed in the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. It's been half a year since I've acquired this book and it has taken a huge effort to go through the book. A book about technology - it's a book about data and design and patterns. OK so i know this has probably been done to death, however i feel that for me to have a published version of my own examples will help me learn the patterns better.