what are the different type of design patterns?

hey guys, recently i worked on Repository Pattern in aspnet MVC and i was just wondering that,i mean how many different patterns are out there (i.e开发者_如何学运维 alternative to Repository Pattern)? please i need small explanation of each Patterns available..? and among all those Patterns what you'll recommend me to go for?

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I've not heard of the Repository Pattern, so it is not part of the GoFs initial set. A quick google shows it to be part of Martin Fowlers Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (a good book I seam to recall, but way to many patterns to keep in ones head). Looking over the index for PoEAA and the Repository Pattern lives in the Object-Relational Metadata Mapping Patterns subset. The alternatives specified in PoEAA are:

• Metadata Mapping
• Query Object

however other pattern repositories may include other options.

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GOF patterns a basically categorized into 4, which are creational pattern, behavioural parttern and structural pattern.

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There are 23 different known design patterns, and they can be separated into three categories by their purpose: Creational, Structural, and Behavioral.

Read more in this article I wrote: JavaScript Design Patterns: Creational