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 of both code and design to your applications. This book explains what frameworks are and how they fit into applications, and offers many object-oriented techniques used in application frameworks.

This book also shows you actually how to develop application frameworks through a concrete framework example called Simplified Application Framework (SAF). The SAF framework was developed by Xin Chen in C#. It consists of common services needed by many applications, such as a class factory service, configuration service, event notification service, security service, and transaction service. This book goes into detail on each of these services to explain its benefits, as well as its design and implementation in C#. Through a discussion of each service, you will also learn about many advanced .NET techniques employed by the framework, such as .NET remoting, reflection, custom attributes, multithreading, and serviced components.

Many of the services discussed in the book also use design patterns as their blueprints. This book discusses these design patterns in-depth and shows how to implement them in a real-world scenario. Accompanying the book are the complete source code of the sample framework and sample executable projects (downloadable via the Internet), allowing readers to actually test out each framework service/component of SAF and learn about the development of frameworks, .NET technologies, and design patterns in a more interactive fashion.

Special Note This book covers .NET 1.0 and 1.1. and assumes knowledge of the .NET Framework and C#.

Table of Contents:

Contents at a Glance


About the Author

About the Technical Reviewer Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 Introduction to Application Frameworks

Chapter 2 Dissection of an Application Framework

Chapter 3 An Overview of the Simplified Application Framework

Chapter 4 Class Factories

Chapter 5 Caching Service

Chapter 6 The SAF.Configuration Service

Chapter 7 SAF.EventNotification

Chapter 8 Windows Services

Chapter 9 Message Queue Services

Chapter 10 Authorization Service

Chapter 11 Authentication Service

Chapter 12 Cryptography Service

Chapter 13 Transaction Service

Chapter 14 DocumentLayer Service

Chapter 15 The Workflow Service

Index