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DDD and ASP.NET MVC

I find myself adding child objects within their parents control. For example; if I was going to add a child. I would call the parents controllers addChild action. /parent/addChild/2 In this case 2 would be the id of the parent that I wanted to add a child to. Doing it this way I don’t have to keep an internal track of which parent the user wants to add a child to. For example /child/create does not tell me what parent I am going to associate the child with. In this scenario I would have to put the parent ID in session or something first. Not sure if what I am doing is “right”….I...
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Entity Framework, Aggregate Root, One-to-Many & DDD

I’m really digging the DDD Aggregate root design pattern and thought it would be good to create an example of using EF to pull a root from the persistence layer (database). My database: In my little database prjects have releases and stories. releases have sprints and stories and stories have tasks. My root is a project.   My model (EF) A method for pulling the root: Its important to note that child objects must be included in the query. ex: Include("Stories.Tasks") will get the tasks. All the projects Dim _entities As Entities.EntityFrameworkEntities = New Entities.EntityFrameworkEntitiesReturn...
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