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Now that I have revised my approach for what constitutes creating and updating entities, I am going back to my Patron entity to rework the create and update commands. I have already scrapped the...

Just when I thought I was in a good place to carry forward with retrieving a persisted entity and then modifying its values, I started looking intently into the CQRS Journey on MSDN. While reading...

A simple update of an object is as complex as adding a new instance of the object, which means it is both straight forward and laden with all kinds of caveats and unlying processes. As with creating...

For the fourth year in a row, on Columbus Day weekend, I have completed the Bank of America Chicago Marathon. Previous years have culminated in mixed results, both by the clock and in my own...

For a while, I have been battling with where validation should occur, and who is responsible for ensuring that the information in a command is good data. For the first layer of data validation, I am...

Creating a patron (by which I mean, issuing a command such that some process somewhere will instantiate an actual Patron entity, and perhaps persist it in some useful manor) is all well and good,...

For simplicity, the PatronFactory's CreatePatron method just returned an IKeyIdentity. This was a simple interface that requires an Id of type Guid. When the creation method was always assumed to...