21 August, 2008. It was a Thursday. Services are first-class citizens of the domain model. When concepts of the model would distort any Entity or Value Object, a Service is appropriate. From Evans’ ...

1 June, 2016. It was a Wednesday. In many of my applications, the UI and API gravitate towards task-oriented UIs. Instead of “editing an invoice”, I “approve an invoice”, with specialized models, ...

21 January, 2016. It was a Thursday. As I work towards the 4.2 release of AutoMapper, I got a little inspiration. Over the past year or so I’ve given some talks/podcasts about a long-lived open source ...

13 October, 2016. It was a Thursday. A while ago, I blogged about using MediatR to build a processing pipeline for requests in the form of commands and queries in your application. MediatR is a ...

note the last line declaring the ENTRYPOINT. The syntax I have chosen in the above sample is one possible way of declaring the entry point. An alternative syntax is using an array of words, i.e.

Supporting portable class libraries (again), profile 111. Because converting projects from PCL to netstandard is hard More performance improvements (mainly in complex mappings), 70% faster in our ...

20 July, 2016. It was a Wednesday. Part of the release of ASP.NET Core is a new DI framework that’s completely integrated with the ASP.NET pipeline. Previous ASP.NET frameworks either had no DI or ...

19 July, 2016. It was a Tuesday. To help those building applications using the new Microsoft DI libraries (used in Orleans, ASP.NET Core, etc.), I pushed out a helper package to register all of your ...

In this post I am going to show step by step how to install a local version of Windows Server 2016 TP5 in Hyper-V and how to configure it to be a container host. It is still not straight forward to ...

27 January, 2016. It was a Wednesday. The Fixie test framework has been in production use for over a year now, and I’ve had a chance to work with it on a number of real world projects as well as a ...

1 November, 2015. It was a Sunday. Earlier this year I joined a development team which chose Entity Framework for the persistence needs of a new greenfield project. While I’ve worked on a few projects ...

Way too many times I encounter applications that claim to have a domain (model) and that domain driven design has been used to develop it, but in reality what I find is a collection of entities or ...