The facade design pattern is a creational design pattern, i.e., falls under the creational design pattern group and can be used to represent a gateway to a subsystem.

Listing 5: Program.cs. You should now be able to run the completed application and see the vehicle simulation running in real time, as seen in Figure 1. [Click on image for larger view.] Figure 1. The ...

To simply this API, I'll use the Facade pattern to create one Facade class -- VehicleFacade -- that's responsible for creation and orchestration of each vehicle subsystem. In this way, the end user ...