Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET

Chapter 1. Values to Value: Or Embarrassing Ramblings When Self-Reflecting on the Last Few Years This chapter's intention is to set the scene. I will do that by looking back in time over the last few years regarding how...

Chapter 2. A Head Start on Patterns We are constantly facing new design problems. We always solve the problems, but sometimes we find that we have backed ourselves into a corner. Sometimes we find that the solution has...

Chapter 3. TDD and Refactoring A good example is a powerful thing; I think we are in agreement on that. One way to describe Test-Driven Development (TDD) is to say that you use tests or examples for specifying the behav...

Chapter 4. A New Default Architecture In the past, I've been pretty data-centric in my application architectures. Lately, this has gradually changed and my current default architecture is based on a Domain Model. This i...

Chapter 5. Moving Further with Domain-Driven Design Some of you might be really eager by now and might be saying something like quot;Come on, let's see the tools and tricks that will show us how to implement a Domain Mo...

Chapter 6. Preparing for Infrastructure It's time to continue the exploration of applying DDD to our problem domain. There is no specific next step, but you may be wondering when I will start dealing with the infrastruc...

Chapter 7. Let the Rules Rule In the last chapter, we took a nice break and looked at some infrastructure preparations. Now we'll return to the core model for a chapter. This chapter is about rules. The topic of rules...

Chapter 8. Infrastructure for Persistence Where are we? We have built a Domain Model from the ground up, and it's in DDD [Evans DDD] style. So far, I've been pushing like crazy for delaying the decisions about infrastru...

Chapter 9. Putting NHibernate into Action This chapter is different from most of the other chapters in the book. Instead of being somewhat abstract, this one will be pretty much hands-on. What we will do here is apply w...

Chapter 10. Design Techniques to Embrace Where are we? We have now spent quite a lot of time discussing and applying the basics of DDD. We have written many unit tests, designed our Domain Model carefully, and made the...

Chapter 11. Focus on the UI Testing the database and the User Interface (UI) is hard. We discussed testing of the database in Chapter 6, quot;Preparing for Infrastructure,quot; but I owe it to you to have some material...