Does anyone know of any 'Decorator' pattern implementations in the .NET Framework?

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# TrackBack said on March 30, 2005 12:49 PM:

# William said on March 30, 2005 3:59 PM:

The System.IO.Stream is a good example. Also, so is the XmlReader of the decorater pattern. I put up an implementation here: http://theagiledeveloper.com/archive/2005/03/30/DecoraterAndXInclude.aspx

# William said on March 30, 2005 4:02 PM:

Thanks Matt! I REALLY appreciate it!

# William said on March 30, 2005 4:28 PM:

A good one for your cuckoos is at: http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~DecoratorPattern~SoftwareEng

yag

# William said on March 30, 2005 4:32 PM:

Yag - You rock brother! Thanks man!

# William said on March 30, 2005 4:52 PM:

Yeah, I was going to say the System.IO namespace uses it a lot. I use the Decorator (wrapper) and Adapter pattern a lot when I'm writing custom web controls for my application.

# William said on March 30, 2005 4:54 PM:

Thanks you guys! I appreciate it. I'm going to run through the IO libs tonight and try to get a better handle on them. Scott- if you have any examples or could show me one of your controls where you use it, I'd Really appreciate it ;-)

# William said on March 31, 2005 12:01 AM:

That's cool. I didn't know that it had a name until I read this entry but it comes in handy when you want to call a method in a sliced object and not call the base class method. So then you get your functionality plus the sliced objects functionality without having to know to much about the object that is being sliced other than it conforms to your decorator interface. It scales up well because you can add more concrete classes and so long as they conform you can use them with your classes derived from the decorated one without changing any code. It beats the h3ll out of having to sub-class each concrete class. That is for sure.