Software Patterns

Software patterns fall in to Architectural patterns, Design patterns and Idiomatic patterns. Architectural patterns: It defines the fundamental structure of the whole software system.

(Layered systems, MVC)

Design patterns: It organizes functionality between subsystems in a domain independent way.

(Abstract factory, template methods, singleton)

Idiomatic patterns: Low level patterns to solve particular implementation problems.

(singleton pattern implementation specific for .net)