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

Jimmy Nilsson

May 2006 · Pearson Education

About this eBook

Patterns, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Test-Driven Development (TDD) enable architects and developers to create systems that are powerful, robust, and maintainable. Now, there’s a comprehensive, practical guide to leveraging all these techniques primarily in Microsoft .NET environments, but the discussions are just as useful for Java developers.

Drawing on seminal work by Martin Fowler (Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture) and Eric Evans (Domain-Driven Design), Jimmy Nilsson shows how to create real-world architectures for any .NET application. Nilsson illuminates each principle with clear, well-annotated code examples based on C# 1.1 and 2.0. His examples and discussions will be valuable both to C# developers and those working with other .NET languages and any databases–even with other platforms, such as J2EE. Coverage includes

· Quick primers on patterns, TDD, and refactoring

· Using architectural techniques to improve software quality

· Using domain models to support business rules and validation

· Applying enterprise patterns to provide persistence support via NHibernate

· Planning effectively for the presentation layer and UI testing

· Designing for Dependency Injection, Aspect Orientation, and other new paradigms

Ratings and reviews

The book is a good read for someone interested in implementing the domain driven design in .Net. The first part was very interesting, when discussing the repository, bounded contexts and aggregates. I was disappointed though in the infrastructure part, in real projects, when you are solving complex issues, fitting your domain model to a data model is second to impossible, I understand that the book is giving simple examples, but promoting the use of domain model as data model, could mislead developers.

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About the author

Jimmy Nilsson owns and runs the Swedish consulting company JNSK AB. He has written numerous technical articles and two books. He has also been training and speaking at conferences, but above everything else, he is a developer with almost 20 years of experience (www.jnsk.se/weblog/).