Developing Application Frameworks in .NET

Application frameworks, which provide a base of common services on which applications are built, offer the benefits of extensibility, modularity, and reusability to both your code and design. This book explains what frameworks are and how they fit into applications, and reveals many of the fundamental object-oriented techniques used in creating them. This book also shows you exactly how to develop frameworks through a real framework example the author did develop in C#, called Simplified Application Framework (SAF). It consists of the common services evident in many working applications, such as the class factory, configuration, event notification, security, and transaction services. This book goes into detail on each service and explains the inherent benefits, as well as the design and implantations in C#. through a discussion of each service, you will learn how the framework actively exploits advanced techniques such as .NET remoting, reflection, custom attributes, multithreading, and serviced components.

Many of the services covered in this book also use design patterns as their blueprints. The author discusses these patterns in depth and show how to implement them each framework service/ component of SAF and understand real framework development, core .NET, and design patterns through a hands-on and intuitive experience with the code.