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Product Description: Professional Design Patterns in VB .NET: Building Adaptable Applications is not merely design pattern theory. No, no. Instead, the authors show design patterns applied to real-world architectural scenarios, so you can witness the patterns in action, reaping benefits along the way! The core of this book contains three case studies, which explain design pattern application in each main tier of an application: data, business, and presentation layers...read more

Aimed at readers designing software using Visual Basic in the .NET environment, covers topics including design patterns, model-view-controller, asynchronous programming, .NET Remoting, UML, and antipatterns.