a dynamic journey of concerns

A dynamic journey of concerns

Jeroen Wijdeven

Agenda

1. WHY? 2. Concerns and Responsibilities 3. Dynamics 4. Features 5. Questions

WHY? 1

WHY?

I don’t like

Because I don’t like code!?! In views

WHY?

I don’t like

Because I don’t like code!?! In views

WHY?

I don’t like

Because I don’t like code!?! In views

Why?

This seems a lot cleaner to me

Why?

This seems a lot cleaner to me

Why?

This seems a lot cleaner to me

Goal

, and Standarisation

• Standarisation

• Single Responsibility

• Testability

Results in:

• Improve overall quality

• Reducing development time

Concerns and Responsibilities 2

Concerns and Responsibilities

Separation of Concerns

• Models are for business

• Controllers are for interaction

• Views display information

Goal reached with mainly 2 practices

Separation of Concerns

• IPropertyValueConverters (previously called IPropertyEditorValueConverter)

• Dynamic“View”models • Implement IPublishedContent so you can still use all the Umbraco beautiness • Is using the DynamicPublishedContent eco system • Act as a proxy for every IPublishedContent (RenderModel.Content) • Containing commonly used functionality like

• Hompage property for global settings • Breadcrumbs • Default ToString() string converters • etc..

Umbraco

Separation of Concerns

Umbraco + Foundation

Separation of Concerns

Dynamics 3

The dynamic type simplifies access

to APIs, or like in our case, the

IPublishedContent Properties

collection.

“ “

Dynamics

Dynamic vs Typed

For example this:

Instead of this:

Dynamics

Example implementation

The Proxy

DynamicModel

Features 4

Talk is cheap. Show me the code! “ “

Questions 5

Contact: mail: Jeroen.Wijdeven@macaw.nl

twitter: @chuhukon

• https://github.com/MacawNL/Macaw.Umbraco.Foundation

• http://jeffreypalermo.com/blog/the-onion-architecture-part-1/

• http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Mvc/custom-controllers

• http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/66585/Comparison-of-Architecture-presentation-patterns-M

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264736.aspx

• chuhukon.nl

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