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Domain in the Box Part 4
Roles? This is definitely one of the areas I've had the most trouble with when I try to understand my fictitious Plebian U Domain. In my original model, roles defined both a person's relationship to the University either employee (of a specific type ex, Professor, Adminstrator, GroundsKeeper etc) or student (graduate, undergrad, post-grad), and status/ fulltime and part time. On my original person object there was no concept of a Roles list (it was build on .Net 1.1, so no generics). The way I had built my layers, the BLL would call into the DAL with a specific RoleID and...
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Domain in the Box Part 3
So how to handle contact info, do I make a "type level" domain object like an Emergency or Home, or do I save that sort of logical grouping for the Business layer. Truthfully I've already made up my mind. The domain layer I'm updating doesn't make any groupings, and here's why. Essentially I tried to look at the domain objects as whole entities onto themselves. An email address really has nothing to do with a mailing address, and any association like "emergency" is purely a matter of interpretation. Another way to look at it is I didn't really want my...
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Domain in the Box Part 2
*** Note I'm doing this post series using Orcas Beta2. So most of my code samples will be using whatever new baked in goodness I can garner from new VS. So far I'm really amazed with this release of VS 2008, aside from awesome JavaScript Intellisense, and a generally lighter, faster feel, the big thing for me is that the 2 Deal Breaker issues I've had with the VS Unit Testing facilities have been fixed. As A long time TestDriven.Net user, It was an absolute requirement to have a right click Run Tests, that would either execute a full TestFixture...
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Domain in the Box Part 1
This post series is going to cover the creation of a fairly simple creation of a set of Domain objects to cover the needs of a fictional Plebian University. The goal will be to create a set of Domain objects that will service a "tracking system" that encapsulates the management of people and facilities for this university. The set of posts will be centered on the Domain objects but we can't really fully develop those objects without knowing a little about how we want to approach persistence and how we want to handle business logic.
Sure there are hundreds...