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Building Application Framework with C# - Implementing the Framework

Laghari

Implementing the Framework

That is all that is required for the application framework builder to do, the end user performs the next step to inherit the framework base class and override all the abstract class defined the framework base class to provide customized functionality.

// class derived from the base class
  class MyClass : AppFramework
  {

// methods providing customized implementation for the abstract methods

override public void init()
  {
  Console.WriteLine("MyClass::init");
  }
 
  override public void run()
  {
  Console.WriteLine("MyClass::run");
  }
 
  override public void destroy()
  {
  Console.WriteLine("MyClass::destroy");
  }
 
  // the main method defined
  public static void Main(String [] arg)
  {
  MyClass myClass = new MyClass();
  }
}

Although it is not necessary for the Main method to be included in the same class which overrides the framework methods; it could well be in a separate class. The complete code listing is as follows.

using System;

abstract class AppFramework
  {
  public AppFramework()
  {
  templateMethod();
  }

public abstract void init();
  public abstract void run();
  public abstract void destroy();
 
  private void templateMethod()
  {
  Console.WriteLine("Initializing Template Engine");
  init();
  run();
  destroy();
  Console.WriteLine("Ending Template Engine");
  }
 
  }

class MyClass : AppFramework
  {

override public void init()
  {
  Console.WriteLine("MyClass::init");
  }
 
  override public void run()
  {
  Console.WriteLine("MyClass::run");
  }
 
  override public void destroy()
  {
  Console.WriteLine("MyClass::destroy");
  }
 
  public static void Main(String [] arg)
  {
  MyClass myClass = new MyClass();
  }
}

Comments

  • Bad design

    Posted by basura2k on 30 Nov 2005

    None serious actual framework uses inheritance or templating. Inversion of Control (aka Dependency Injection Pattern) is a much better design and seems to be the way most popular frameworks had taken.

  • Great Intro

    Posted by bostown03 on 10 Feb 2003

    Developing Java for a few years and understanding most of the concepts and theory of the language this tutorial gave me a better idea as to what to expect when making the jump to C#. Although not in-...

  • Bad!!

    Posted by chinnu704 on 06 Jan 2003

    The title gives an impression that we are going to delve deep into application frameworks...but the article is just basic, although its OK. Better change the title to avoid such comments.

  • Framework

    Posted by LA on 18 Dec 2002

    Horrible!!

    I thought this was an article about Frameworks??? Instead I get a brief on the basics of Inheritence. A Framework is a much larger issue, and cannot be covered in three HTML pages.

    ...

  • Framework

    Posted by Hammad Rajjoub on 02 Jul 2002

    A very good article and written in a very good understandable form.
    Frameworks are rightly easing the amount of effort required to put in to code development by developers.
    Frameworks provide set of...