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The Barnes & Noble ReviewNow that you're using VB to take on more sophisticated challenges, it's time to get clued into UML and design patterns (if you aren't already). Visual Basic Developer's Guide to UML and Design Patterns identifies 23 of the problems enterprise VB developers run into over and over again — and presents the best solutions, complete with sample code and UML diagrams that make everything easier to visualize, discuss, and share with colleagues.
If you're new to UML and design patterns, the authors offer a quick primer to get you started. Next, they introduce several structural patterns that establish an architectural framework for how VB objects should interact with each other. For example, there's the adapter pattern, which allows two objects to communicate even though they have incompatible interfaces, and the decorator pattern, which allows you to assign additional responsibilities to an object without subclassing.
Next, the authors introduce several behavioral patterns for changing the behavior of a system at run-time. Among them: the mediator pattern, which creates an object that serves as "traffic cop" to control the interaction amongst a set of objects; and the hook pattern, which makes it easier for future developers to add functionality to the application you're creating today.
Finally, Visual Basic Developer's Guide to UML and Design Patterns presents four creational patterns that give you more flexible, efficient ways to create objects.
If you're a serious VB developer, this book's solutionsandtechniques will make you far more effective, and your code far more robust.
—Bill Camarda, bn.com editor