Clean Architecture Demo

A sample application for Clean Architecture: Patterns, Practices, and Principles using Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8.

This sample application is intended to be a learning tool for clean architecture practices. It incorporates several of these practices in a way that is simple and easy to understand.

If you'd like to learn more about this style of software architecture, please check out my online course Clean Architecture: Patterns, Practices, and Principles.

Branches

There are three branches in this project to demonstrate various practices:

• master - contains the simplest implementation used to demonstrate the practices taught in the course at the expense of a bit of coupling with the IDbSet interface from Entity Framework

• dbset-adaptor - uses a database adapter to completely decouple the application from the persistence layer -- a cleaner but slightly more complex approach

• repo-and-uow - uses the repository and unit of work patterns to completely decouple the application from the persistance layer -- an even cleaner but also more complex approach

Technologies

This demo application uses the following technologies:

• .NET Framework 4.8
• C# .NET 7.3
• ASP.NET MVC 5.2
• Entity Framework 6.4
• Visual Studio 2022
• SQL Server 2019
• StructureMap 4.7
• NUnit 3.13
• Moq 4.18
• SpecFlow 3.9

Other Versions

For other versions of this sample application, please see the following:

• .NET Core 6.0
• .NET Framework 4.5