I had few previous posts about DDD & TDD with Entity Framework that you might need to return to them before you proceed with this post. To summarize these posts, I was trying to build testable Models that is based on EF. But EF doesn't support Persistence Ignorance in its first version which make testing it in most cases require a database connection where you can test you code against it. My target was to build a testable models based on EF and that is independent of any underlying data source.

Introduction, Domain Model Review:

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Information about the book:

Book Title: ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design
Book's Page: http://www.packtpub.com/application-architecture-and-design-for-asp-.net-3.5/book
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Chapters: 9
Publisher: PACKT Publishing
Author: Vivek Thakur

Introduction:

Microsoft ASP.NET has quickly evolved to become one of the most famous platforms for developing web-based solutions. Since its first release with .Net 1.0, Microsoft has continuously added many out-of-the-box features and components, making web development easier for the end developer. As ASP.NET is part of the whole .Net Framework, it is gaining benefits of all features and technologies provided by the .Net Framework itself. With the introduction of LINQ, MS AJAX, WCF, WPF, and a lot of exciting new tools, the .NET framework has not only grown large but also flexible, in terms of the choices and options being offered to the developers.

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