.NET Domain-Driven Design with C#: Problem - Design - Solution (Programmer to Programmer) [Paperback]

Tim McCarthy (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470147563 | ISBN-13: 978-0470147566 | Publication Date: April 28, 2008 | Edition: 1

As the first technical book of its kind, this unique resource walks you through the process of building a real-world application using Domain-Driven Design implemented in C#. Based on a real application for an existing company, each chapter is broken down into specific modules so that you can identify the problem, decide what solution will provide the best results, and then execute that design to solve the problem. With each chapter, you'll build a complete project from beginning to end.

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.NET Domain-Driven Design with C# Problem Design Solution

As the first technical book of its kind, this unique resource walks you through the process of building a real-world application usingDomain-Driven Design implemented in C#. Based on a real application for an existing company, the project featured throughout the book focuses on the Domain Model and the framework that is being built to support it.

Each chapter is broken down into specific modules so that you can identify the problem, decide what solution will provide the best results, and then execute that design to solve the problem. With each chapter, you?ll build a complete project from beginning to end, offering you indispensable, hands-on practice at creating code that builds applications.

What you will learn from this book

• When, why, and how to use Domain-Driven Design
• How to design and build the initial Domain Model
• What to do to achieve ?Persistence Ignorance?
• Ways to build a Repository framework for the Domain Model
• Techniques for applying TDD to the Domain Model
• How to apply the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern
• How to build a client-side membership system
• What to do to synchronize the client application with the server

Who this book is for
This book is for experienced C# .NET developers who want to improve their techniques for writing applications that perform well and are highly scalable.

Wrox Problem - Design - Solution references give you solid, workable solutions to real-world development problems. Each is devoted to a single application, analyzing every problem, examining relevant design issues, and implementing the ideal solution.

About the Author

Tim McCarthy is a freelance consultant who architects, designs and builds highly scalable layered web and smart client applications utilizing the latest Microsoft platforms and technologies. Tim is a Microsoft MVP in Solutions Architecture, and his expertise covers a wide range of Microsoft technologies, including, but not limited to, the following: .NET Framework (ASP.NET/Smart Clients/VSTO/Workflow/Web Services, Windows Presentation Foundation), SQL Server, Active Directory, MS Exchange development, UDDI, SharePoint, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications.
Tim has worked as both a project technical lead/member as well as being in a technical consulting role for several Fortune 500 companies. He has held the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) certifications for several years, and was one of the first wave of developers to earn the Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) for .NET and MCSD for .NET certifications. He also holds the Microsoft Certified Database Administrator certification for SQL Server 2000. Tim is also certified as an IEEE Certified Software Development Professional, and he is one of only 550 people to hold this certification in the world.
Tim has been an author and technical reviewer for several books from Wrox Press. His other books include being a lead author on Professional VB 2005 , several editions of Professional VB.NET , Professional Commerce Server 2000 , and Professional ADO 2.5 Programming . He also has written and presented a DVD titled SharePoint Portal Services Programming 2003 . Tim has written numerous articles for the Developer .NET Update newsletter, developed packaged presentations for the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), and wrote a whitepaper for Microsoft on using COM+ services in .NET. He has also written articles for SQL Server Magazine and Windows & .NET Magazine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Wrox; 1 edition (April 28, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470147563
• ISBN-13: 978-0470147566
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 1 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #386,510 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tim McCarthy is a freelance software engineer/architect consultant based in San Diego. He has worked as an author on numerous books over the years, and recently had a solo book published, .NET Domain-Driven Design with C#: Problem - Design - Solution. Tim is currently running several .NET open source projects on CodePlex and is amazed at how cool the big "TFS in the Sky" is. He spends most of his time applying Domain-Driven Design techniques to SharePoint/Silverlight applications.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice reference app for DDD, June 20, 2008

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This review is from: .NET Domain-Driven Design with C#: Problem - Design - Solution (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)

I've been playing with Domain Driven Design off-and-on for about a year now. I've read the Evans book (Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software), the Nillson book (Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET), and the Fowler book (Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)), but what I really need is a real-world reference app to put all these concepts together.

That's what Tim McCarthy's book does. It presents an anotated reference application, a real estate construction management application built as a WPF smart client. McCarthy's writing is clear and to-the-point--he simply provides a running commentary on the reference app from a sequence-of-development perspective. He starts with a skeleton and builds out the app from there, discussing his refactorings as he goes. I find this very helpful as a template for developing my own DDD apps.

The reference app is written in C#, as are the book's code snippets. However, since most of the code discussed boils down to .NET calls, even VB users with only limited experience with C# may find it useful. As C# is my language of choice, it did not present any problem for me.

This is a really good book; the best I've bought in a while. I do not hesitate to recommend it to any developer learning DDD in C#.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful, but irritating, July 29, 2008

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Maltese Falcon (Trondheim, Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: .NET Domain-Driven Design with C#: Problem - Design - Solution (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)

I find the book useful in the way it present a design the evolves as the authors attack new parts of the problem area. There are many interesting patterns and ways of dealing with problems that I can see myself using in my own projects.

My main objective is that it can get a bit repetitive. By accident I skipped from the middle of one chapter to the middle of the next. Because of the repetitiveness it took me a while to discover it. At the same time new aspects are constantly introduced so there are still value in the new chapters.

A big annoyance is all the textual errors. It is obvious that cut and paste has been a big part of writing this book, and many times the author has forgotten to update the copied text appriopriately. There is also evidence of the restructuring of the book gone bad, with reference to items not having been introduced yet. It all seems like a bit of a rush job.

Even so, I will give it a pretty high score for the content of the book and the way it can help developers approach their challenges in a good way

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for reference, October 16, 2009

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This review is from: .NET Domain-Driven Design with C#: Problem - Design - Solution (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)

This book was entirely describing the design and implementation of SmartCA application using domain-driven design pattern. The author put every detail of steps in building this application from class design classes, creating solution, configuration, writing unit test... I did not run sample code so I did not know if it actually worked. My focus was the design. The author also provides detail of MVC model for SmartCA application

About the topic, the design was very interesting to me. I used this approach in my past company ( about 10 years ago). However, the design in this book was much cleaner with the favor of .Net 3.5. I like the concept of "the domain model is ignorant of how its data is saved or retrieved from its underlying data store or stores" . The introduction of unitOfWork and Repository objects for each aggregate was good in the design. I think chapter 2 was most important chapter. This described the architecture design of the application, what layer needed, how they interacts with each other. This must be understood completely before moving down to the detail. Once the design pattern was clear, the later chapters provided detail implementations. The structure was similar exception each chapter focus on particular aggregate entity.

I think this book is definitely not for C# beginner. It can be a good reference for higher level.