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Mastering ABP Framework

By : Halil İbrahim Kalkan
Book Image

Mastering ABP Framework

By: Halil İbrahim Kalkan

Overview of this book

ABP Framework is a complete infrastructure for creating modern web applications by following software development best practices and conventions. With ABP's high-level framework and ecosystem, you can implement the Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle and focus on your business code. Written by the creator of ABP Framework, this book will help you to gain a complete understanding of the framework and modern web application development techniques. With step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you'll understand the requirements of a modern web solution and how ABP Framework makes it enjoyable to develop your own solutions. You'll discover the common requirements of enterprise web application development and explore the infrastructure provided by ABP. Throughout the book, you’ll get to grips with software development best practices for building maintainable and modular web solutions. By the end of this book, you'll be able to create a complete web solution that is easy to develop, maintain, and test.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction
6
Part 2: Fundamentals of ABP Framework
11
Part 3: Implementing Domain–Driven Design
15
Part 4: User Interface and API Development
19
Part 5: Miscellaneous

Structuring a .NET solution based on DDD

So far, we have been introduced to the layers and core building blocks of a DDD-based software solution. In this section, we will learn how a .NET solution can be layered based on DDD. I will begin with the simplest possible solution structure. Then, I will explain how ABP's startup solution template evolved into its current structure. Finally, you will understand why the ABP startup solution has that many projects inside it and the purpose of each.

Creating a simple DDD-based .NET solution

Let's start from scratch and keep things simple by creating four projects in our .NET solution, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 9.2 – A simple DDD-based .NET solution in Visual Studio

Assuming that we are building a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, Acme is our company name, and Crm is the product name in this example. I've created a separate C# project for each layer. .NET projects...