Visual Basic Design Patterns (eBook)

Mark Grand is an Atlanta-based consultant specializing inDistributed Systems Object Oriented Design and Java. He was thearchitect of the first commercial B2B e-commerce product for theInternet. Prior to his involvement with Java, Mark spent over 11years as a designer and implementer of 4GLs. His most recent rolein that vein was as the architect and project manager for anelectronic data interchange product. Mark has worked with a numberof MIS organizations in capacities such as Software Architect,Database Architect and Network Designer.Mark has been involved with object-oriented programming and designsince 1982 and is now most widely known for his best-sellingpatterns books. Mark has taught for U.C. Berkeley, Sun and otherorganizations. You can find more information about Mark Grand athttp://www.markgrand.com/.Brad Merrill currently works as a software engineer onthe ASP.NET team at Microsoft. He's previously worked as a.NET technology evangelist at Microsoft, and as a software engineerat Sybase and Digital Equipment Corporation. His areas of expertiseare in distributed systems, transaction processing, operatingsystems, and compiler technology. Brad lives in Redmond,Washington, and is an avid tournament chess player and bridgeplayer. He can be reached at zbrad@cybercom.net orhttp://www.cybercom.net/~zbrad.

About the Authors.Credits.Introduction.Chapter 1: Overview of UML.Chapter 2: The Software Life Cycle.Chapter 3: Fundamental Design Patterns.Chapter 4: Creational Patterns.Chapter 5: Partitioning Patterns.Chapter 6: Structural Patterns.Chapter 7: Behavioral Patterns.Chapter 8: Concurrency Patterns.Bibliography.Index.