Events and Structural Design Patterns

Summary

Simplifying application design by identifying relationships between entities, structural design patterns describe how to combine classes and objects to form larger structures. This Drill includes topics such as the Adapter, Decorator, and Composite design patterns.

Audience

This Drill is for developers who want to be able to understand more about events and the common structural design patterns.

What you'll learn

You will learn various ways to handle events, and how to apply Structural design patterns such as Adapter, Decorator, Composite, and so on. You will see how these design patterns can be used to dynamically create larger structures from a number of smaller classes working together. Using these patterns, you will be able to create structures that, while complex, are easy to understand and modify.

What you need to know

We assume that you’re already familiar with the concepts of programming and you’ve some experience with Visual Studio 2005. For this particular Drill, you’ll also need to be comfortable with Visual C# or Visual Basic syntax. Although not essential, experience in object-oriented development and familiarity with Generics would also be useful.