The first quarter of 2020 is over and I have yet to write a single blog post. I have been tinkering away constantly, but with the change of employment...

Something that I've continuously struggled with in getting projects off the ground is finding a way to handle Authentication. Just the thought of building out a User Portal to handle Contact Informati...

Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) was not something that I easily understood. Martin Fowler did a thorough job of explaining it in often-linke...

I may have gone down a long and twisted rabbit hole trying to figure out this problem, but I learned a lot about how model binding along the way, so I consider the whole experiment a productive use of...

Now that the Vigil Project has breached into the API layer, I started to learn all kinds of new information about what takes place before the Controller's Action method is called and what happens afte...

As I was writing the previous post, it came as a shock how far behind my posts on the progress of the Vigil Donor Relationship Management System had gotten. I...

Thus far in the series, the Vigil Journey project has been able to create a patron, update a patron, and have those ...

There are many solutions on the market (including free open source) for creating b...

There are two ways to retrieve the current values associated with an entity. The canonical source is the collection of events that describe how an entity came into existance and then was affected over...

I have come to the point where I am building out the initial proof-of-concept for the WebAPI portion of this project. This gives me a place to continue testing out features, and see if how I envisione...

Now that I have revised my approach for what constitutes creating and updating entities, I am going back to my Patron entity to rework the c...

Just when I thought I was in a good place to carry forward with retrieving a persisted entity and then modifying its values, I started looking intently into the [CQRS Journey](https://msdn.microsoft.c...

A simple update of an object is as complex as adding a new instance of the object, which means it is both straight forward and laden with all kinds of caveats and unlying processes. As with [creating ...

For a while, I have been battling with where validation should occur, and who is responsible for ensuring that the information in a command is good data. For the first layer of data validation, I am t...

Creating a patron (by which I mean, issuing a command such that some process somewhere will instantiate an actual Patron entity, and perhaps persist it in some useful manor) is all well and good, unti...

For simplicity, the PatronFactory's CreatePatron method just returned an IKeyIdentity. This was a simple interface that requires an Id of type Guid. When the creation method was always assum...

The first thing that I learned with Dependency Injection is that it encourages a mindset of "I'll figure that out that later." This allows me to put in the bare minimum for what might pass a test, eve...

There can be a lot of issues with figuring out how to identify an object, especially as I try to track it across various services, platforms, persistance strategies, and even entire systems. For a whi...

As I have been working on the Vigil project, I have been accidentally stumbling onto various patterns. I will go in search of a way to solve some particular problem, and end up losing several hours wh...

I've finally done it; I finally ripped, twisted, and otherwise cajoled the default MVC template, Identity code, and a few other tweaks I wanted to make into something I am semi-confident will be a goo...

In the quest to get to a Minimum Viable Product, I wanted to be able to wrap together a set of projects that would act as a complete framework for future projects. Every (nearly every) project require...

I have found that it is better to put structure in place around a project before going hog wild on implementation. While I recognize that some practices grow organically, a healthy amount of structure...

Two key library decisions needed to be made this week: choosing the object-relational Mapping (ORM) framework, and choosing a membership provider. To cut right to the end, Entity Framework and ASP.NET...

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

-Phil Karlton

The ASP.NET Identity system is designed to replace the previous ASP.NET Membership and Simple Membership systems. It includes profile support, OAuth integration, works...