Domain event is a very useful concept in Domain Driven Design that allows you to separate concerns in your domain via events. You can also offload the side effects of the actions in your domain to an event handler and let that run asynchronously. For things like sending emails and notifications this makes perfect sense since those are inherently asynchronous anyway.

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In DDD, the value object is used when your entity conceptually does not have an identity and it is all about the data. Now the question of something being a value object or an entity - where we care about the actual Id - is a business question but think about an address in a ordering management system where a customer has addresses. You probably don’t care about the address as something on its own, so you don’t care about it’s identity and as such, two addresses are the same if their values are the same. Another away about the value object, is that it is immutable, meaning if you want to change an address, you need to create a new one and replace an existing address as it is not possible to change an existing address.

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In this series, I’m going to write about some of the challenges we’ve been facing with DDD. If you want to adapt DDD on .NET stack, this hopefully will be useful for you. Along with concepts I’ll talk about what works (or doesn’t) well with EntityFramework, but most of it will still be useful with other ORMs - or even without one.

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One of the four fundamentals of Object-Oriented Programing is Encapsulation which is defined as: “A language mechanism for restricting access to some of the object’s components”. This would help us separate the internal implementation from the publicly accessible surface of the object. The idea is to hide how the object actually work from the outside world, so that we can change the internal without breaking anything as the object still looks the same from the outside.

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In last post showed how easy it was to use POCO classes in EntityFramework v4, a feature called “All Code”. This new feature, facilitates creating domain models but how about other features you may already have using other ORMs like NHibernate? Let’s see how we can achieve automatic audit logging in EF v4. Continue reading

With the release of EntityFramework v1 and lack of features such as Lazy Loading and Persistence Ignorance leading to Vote of No Confidence resulted the team working on Entity Framework project to actually change route and as the result, a lot of improvements has been made in EntityFramework v4. Wait a second…What happened to v2 and v3, you might ask? Well, EntityFramework vNext that will be released with .NET Framework 4 is named EntityFramework v4, so you didn’t miss anything. Let’s see how PI works in this version. Continue reading

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Hadi Eskandari

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