Chris Cyvas

A couple of weeks ago I went around and contributed to just about every open source framework / assembly / tool that dashCommerce uses except for 2. One because they never got back to me on how to contribute and another because the project leader is a bit of a dweeeeeeeb. So, who got the cash? They  are:

• AlpineSoft.EZRSA – $50.00 USD
• Intelligencia.UrlRewriter – $51.28 USD
• TortoiseSVN – $40.00 USD
• WinMerge – $50.00 USD
• log4net – $50.00 USD

That’s a grand total of: $241.28 USD in contributions.

I think this is important to do. Regardless of your motivations for doing open source, it’s a lot easier to do when you feel your work is appreciated and provides value to others. To all of these projects – keep up the great work and THANK YOU for helping us make dashCommerce one of the best open source projects in the .NET space!

We’ve already started doing some refactoring of dashCommerce for V.Next. Right now, I have been doing the work on my code base for dashCommerce.com because I usually guinea pig that first to see how stuff is going to work. With the next rev, we are going to be introducing some Dependency Injection and IoC in order to loosen the application up. I mentioned this in dashCommerce and a crowbar.

In the Web project I have a ServiceRegistry class that simply loads the “Store” container and then the services are available off the ServiceRegistry. So, there are calls right now, like this:

lblRetailPriceAmount.Text = ServiceRegistry.CurrencyService.GetConvertedAmount(_product.RetailPrice, convertCode);

- and -

productCollection = ServiceRegistry.CatalogService.FetchProductsByCategoryId(categoryId) as ProductCollection;   

These services then use the respective cache to pull the objects / values. So, the call stack looks like this:

CatalogService : ICatalogService

   calls to — > CategoryCache and ProductCache

      calls to –> CategoryController and ProductController

CurrencyService : ICurrencyService

   calls to –> CurrencyRateCache

      calls to –> CurrencyService

Do you see anything wrong with this? 

I’ve also started moving all of the interfaces to a separate assembly in order to decrease the dependencies. Logically, the only reference Web should have is to the assembly that contains the interfaces while the dependency injection / IoC will take care of building up the services. Also, Store would also have a ServiceRegistry class that builds up any of the Core stuff that is required.

What do you think? Suggestions, comments, etc????