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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

Using the feature system

Most SaaS solutions provide different packages to the customers. Every package has a different set of application features and is subscribed at a different price. ABP provides a feature system used to define such application features, and then disable or enable these features for individual tenants. Let's start by defining a feature.

Defining the features

It is required to define a feature before using it. Create a new class deriving from the FeatureDefinitionProvider class (typically in the .Application.Contracts project in the startup solution) and override the Define method, as shown in the following example:

public class MyAppFeatureDefinitionProvider :
    FeatureDefinitionProvider
{
    public override void Define(
        IFeatureDefinitionContext context)
    {
        var myGroup = context.AddGroup...