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Some DDD+EF Resources

Data Access,

Could not fit this into a tweet in response to a request.

Here are some resources for how EF can be a partner to a Domain Driven Design world:

Update June 2015:

Microsoft Ignite, Chicago May 2015
Domain-Driven Design for the Database Driven Mind (90 minute presentation video on Channel 9)

Update: October 2014:

MSDN Mag Oct 2014 Issue:
Data Points: A Pattern for Sharing Data Across Domain-Driven Design Bounded Contexts
Julie Lerman explores a way to mirror data as one scenario for sharing data across DDD bounded contexts.

MSDN Mag Dec 2014 Issue:
Data Points: A Pattern for Sharing Data Across Domain-Driven Design Bounded Contexts : Part 2 (will provide link when available)

Video: Oredev, Fall 2013 (by me)
ENTITY FRAMEWORK IN CORE-BUSINESS APPLICATIONS THAT LEVERAGE DDD

Video: TechEd North America, May 2014 (Vaughn Vernon)
How You Can Implement Aggregates and Domain Entities Effectively in Domain Models, with .NET

Article Series:
MSDN Magazine Data Points Column (by me) Aug, Sept & Oct 2013
Coding for Domain-Driven Design: Tips for Data-Focused Devs, Part 1
Coding for Domain-Driven Design: Tips for Data-Focused Devs, Part 2
Coding for Domain-Driven Design: Tips for Data-Focused Devs, Part 3

Domain modeling with Entity Framework Scorecard (Jimmy Bogard)

Bonus for NHibernate Converts:
And for those who are looking for this by way of moving from DDD + NH, Jimmy Bogard did a great post (with pointers to related posts) on Migrating from NHibernate to EF.

DDD Fundamentals, SOON SOON

Presentations,

imageSteve Smith and I have been working for quite a while on a Domain-Driven Design Fundamentals course for Pluralsight. Our schedules and some interesting, unexpected but quite welcome, learning curves and most importantly, our “go big or go home” desire to refine, clarify and polish everything made this take longer to finish than either of us imagined.

In addition, the demo app that we show and evolve throughout the course – much of which is Steve’s genius – is totally kick-ass!

We are grateful that Eric Evans participated in this by chatting with us on Skype and capturing video to include throughout the course. We also are thankful for some guidance from another DDD guru, Vaughn Vernon.

The course is about 4.5 hours long, broken up into 7 modules.

The course has been done, reviewed, edited and absolutely final…ready to be published but unfortunately, so are many other new courses on Pluralsight. So the DDD Fundamentals is in the queue to get published soon.

Believe me, Steve & I will be tweeting up a storm when this thing finally goes live so watch our blogs or twitter (I’m twitter.com/julielerman, he’s twitter.com/ardalis).