Saturday, August 29, 2009

S#arp Architecture - Architectural review

Overview

For the past 6 months or so I have been using and following closely the framework’s evolution from beta to release. During this time I have found the project, community and reference documentation excellent! and the team of contributors have done a professional job assembling this framework into a key source of guidance on how to assemble an enterprise architecture that embraces (from its Project main page on Google code) :

  • Loose coupling leveraging Microsoft’s ASP.Net MVC
  • Persistence ignorance with NHibernate
  • Domain Driven Design
  • Pre-configured infrastructure

S#arp Architecture includes S#arp Scaffolding that greatly speeds up the process of adding CRUD functionality for your entities through the use of T4 templates implemented with the T4 Template toolkit. The “out-of-the box” templates can be extended adding support for using the JavaScript library. It also includes a Visual Studio project template to build out your Solution tree. Billy has a good on the topic of extending the T4 template to embrace the EXT-JS library.He frequently responds to questions that come into the Google group discussion forum linked at the bottom of this post. has done several videos on getting started and extending the architecture. Others of note who contribute with insightful comments and blog entries that have helped my understanding are .

What follows will be a series of blog posts documenting the ability to override the default generated templates and code to produce the desired result of managing the roles for various users accessing an MVC website in the context of varying controller actions.

The posts will be as follows:

Introducing the model and overriding Fluent NHibernate’s auto mapping strategy within S#arp Architecture

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