Mastering ABP Framework

Build maintainable .NET solutions by implementing software development best practices

Halil İbrahim Kalkan

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Mastering ABP Framework

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To my wife, Gözde, for always trusting me and being with me, and to my kids, Tuana and Mete.

– Halil İbrahim Kalkan

Foreword

I have known Halil İbrahim Kalkan for almost 20 years and we have been working together for more than 10 years. Halil is one of the greatest developers/software architects I have ever worked with. He likes solving common software problems and tries to create solutions that other developers can use. With this passion, he created ASP.NET Boilerplate Framework back in 2013 and then included me in his journey of framework development. After ASP.NET Boilerplate became very popular in the .NET world, Halil decided to re-write it with the name ABP Framework. ABP Framework is a complete infrastructure for creating modern web applications by following software development best practices and conventions.

In this book, Halil will show you how easy it is to build robust, maintainable, and scalable software solutions using ABP Framework. Developing modular software is every developer's dream, but it is really hard to do. Halil will also show you how to create modular software easily using ABP Framework.

You will also learn how to work with Entity Framework Core and MongoDB to develop the data access layer for your application, how to build UIs with ASP.NET Core MVC (Razor Pages) and Blazor, and how ABP Framework seamlessly supports multi-tenancy.

To develop robust software, testing the application is very important. Halil will guide you on how to write unit and integration tests using ABP Framework easily.

By the end of this book, you will be able to create a complete web solution that is easy to develop, maintain, and test.

İsmail ÇAĞDAŞ

Co-Founder – Volosoft

Contributors

About the author

Halil İbrahim Kalkan is a computer engineer who loves building reusable libraries, creating distributed solutions, and working on software architectures. He is an expert in domain-driven design, multi-tenancy, modularity, and microservice architecture. Halil has been building software since 1997 (when he was 14) and working as a professional since 2007. He has a lot of articles and talks on software development. He is a very active open source contributor and has built many projects based on web and Microsoft technologies. Halil is currently leading the open source ABP Framework, which provides a complete architectural solution for building .NET applications.

I want to thank the people who were close to me and supported me while writing this book, especially my wife, Gözde, for her understanding and patience with me spending my all weekends completing this book, and my mother, Fatma, for always supporting me. I also thank Aaron Tanna, who came to me with this book offer; Hayden Edwards, Rashi Dubey, and Lee Richardson, for their excellent reviews and editorial support; and Berkan Şaşmaz, Engincan Veske, Armağan Ünlü, Melis Platin, and Enis Necipoğlu, for their help in preparing the EventHub reference application. This book could not have existed without your help.

About the reviewer

Lee Richardson is a Microsoft MVP and a prolific writer, speaker, and YouTuber on .NET and open source topics. He frequently covers ABP content on his popular "Code Hour" YouTube channel, his blog, and on CodeProject. Throughout his two decades of software development consulting in the Washington DC area, he has spoken scores of times at code camps, conferences, and user groups. He currently works as a Solution Samurai at InfernoRed Technologies. He is active on Twitter, where you can reach him @lprichar.