1. Alvin Ashcraft Eclipsys Corporation / DZone.com alvin@dzone.com

2.  Introduction – Who Am I?  Model-View-Controller pattern & ASP.NET MVC  NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate & MVCcontrib  The S#arp Archtecture Project  Building a S#arp Architecture Application  Summary  Additional Resources

3.  14 Years Development Experience  Software Engineer at Eclipsys Corporation – Malvern, PA  Contributing Editor at DZone’s.NET Zone – http://dotnet.dzone.com http://dotnet.dzone.com  MCSD, MCAD, MCDBA, MCSE, MCSA, CompTIA ITProject+ Certifications  Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) – Awarded April 2009  Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew – http://www.alvinashcraft.com http://www.alvinashcraft.com

4.  MODEL – Business logic plus one or more data sources such as a relational database.  VIEW – The user interface that displays information about the model to the user.  CONTROLLER – The flow- control mechanism means by which the user interacts with the application.

5.  Released April 9, 2009  Alternative to ASP.NET WebForms  Built for testability  User-friendly (and SEO-friendly) URLs  Clear separation of concerns  Lacks rich control set available with WebForms  Demo – ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Project Structure

6.  Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) Tool  Map data to your domain objects (.hbm.xml mapping files)  Manipulate persistent data  Handle transactions and concurrency

7.  An alternative to NHibernate's standard XML mapping files.  Write mappings in strongly typed C# code.  Benfits:  Refactoring  Readability  Concise  Fluent mapping  Automapping  Fluent database configuration

8.  Adds functionality on top of the MVC Framework  UI Helpers  Routing  Filters  View Engines  Lots More…  http://mvccontrib.org http://mvccontrib.org

9.  Owner & Creator: Billy McCafferty  Project Members  Frank Laub  Simone Busoli  Kyle Baley  Rapidly build maintainable web applications.  Leverage ASP.NET MVC, NHibernate and Spring.NET.  Ignore infrastructure. Focus on domain and UX.

10.  DDD-Focused  Loosely Coupled  Preconfigured Architecture  Open-Ended Presentation  jQuery  Yahoo UI Widgets  ASP.NET AJAX

12.  Detailed Documentation in S#arp Architecture Reference Guide document.  Software Prerequisites  Visual Studio 2008 SP1  NUnit v2.4.8  T4Toolbox v9.1.20.1  ASP.NET MVC 1.0  Install Visual Studio S#arp Architecture Project Template  Configuring IIS  Demo - Configuration

13.  Music Store  Chinook Database 1.1 (www.codeplex.com/ChinookDatabase)www.codeplex.com/ChinookDatabase  Index will list data for entities  Artists  Albums  Tracks  Playlists  Customers  Invoices  Create/Edit records  Demo – Create the Project

14.  Manual Mapping  XML Mapping  Fluent NHibernate  CRUD Scaffolding  Demo – Mapping Data

15.  Filtering View Data  Using Custom View Data to Access Multiple Repositories (Entity Lists)  Support for Different View Engines  Add some jQuery flair  Submit via AJAX  Add Edit-in-Place  Add jQuery UI tabs  jQuery Grid Options  Demo – Feature Options

16.  Fill out your evals  Book & shirt giveaway  After Party @ Shanachie in Ambler  All slides and sample code will be posted to Philly.NET site  Thank our sponsors!

17. Professional Cheat Sheets for Developers!

18.  S#arp Architecture on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/sharp-architecture/http://code.google.com/p/sharp-architecture/  S#arp Architecture Discussion Group: http://groups.google.com/group/sharp-architecture?pli=1http://groups.google.com/group/sharp-architecture?pli=1  S#arp Architecture Community Site: http://www.sharparchitecture.net/http://www.sharparchitecture.net/  S#arp Architecture Wiki: http://wiki.sharparchitecture.net/default.aspxhttp://wiki.sharparchitecture.net/default.aspx  Billy McCafferty’s Blog: http://devlicio.us/blogs/billy_mccafferty/default.aspxhttp://devlicio.us/blogs/billy_mccafferty/default.aspx  Virtual ALT.NET S#arp Architecture Presentation – 04/22 @ 10pm: http://twurl.nl/e8i3u0http://twurl.nl/e8i3u0  DimeCasts.NET Episodes by Kyle Baley: http://www.dimecasts.nethttp://www.dimecasts.net  Episode #75: Introduction to S#arp Architecture  Episode #97: Another look at Sharp Architecture: Validation, Design Decisions and Automapping  Episode #102: Taking a look at how to modify the T4 templates used by Sharp Architecture  NHibernate Best Practices with ASP.NET: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/NHibernateBestPractices.aspx http://www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/NHibernateBestPractices.aspx  Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series: http://www.summerofnhibernate.com/http://www.summerofnhibernate.com/  Rob Conery’s MVC Storefront Project: http://blog.wekeroad.com/mvc-storefront/mvc-storefront- part-1/http://blog.wekeroad.com/mvc-storefront/mvc-storefront- part-1/  Stephen Walther’s ASP.NET MVC Application Building Series: http://stephenwalther.com/blog/category/2.aspx http://stephenwalther.com/blog/category/2.aspx  James Gregory’s Blog (Fluent NHibernate): http://blog.jagregory.com/2008/08/08/introducing- fluent-nhibernate/http://blog.jagregory.com/2008/08/08/introducing- fluent-nhibernate/  Great ASP.NET MVC & NHibernate Bloggers: Phil Haack, Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, Simone Chiaretta, Keyvan Nayyeri, Nick Berardi, Oren Eini, Derik Whittaker, Tim Barcz, Ben Scheirman, and more…

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