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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

Running the solution

We can use an IDE or code editor to open the solution, create a database, and run the web application. Open the ProductManagement.sln solution in Visual Studio or your favorite IDE. You will see a solution structure like the one depicted here:

Figure 2.2 – ProductManagement solution in Visual Studio

The solution is layered and contains multiple projects. The test folder has projects to test these layers. Most of these projects are class libraries, while a few of them are executable applications. These are described here:

  • ProductManagement.Web is the main web application of the solution.
  • ProductManagement.DbMigrator is used to apply database migrations and seeds the initial data.

The solution uses a database. Before creating a database, you may want to check and change the database connection string.

The connection string

A connection string is used to connect to the database and typically includes the...