Professional ASP.NET Design Patterns

Chapter 10. Requirements and Infrastructure

WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?

• Introduction to Agatha's e-commerce store, which will form the case study putting into practice all the patterns and principles you have learned up to this point

• Building the Infrastructure project to support the application

• Using the design patterns and principles that you have learned to keep the code base loosely coupled and easy to maintain

The final five chapters in this book form a case study that puts into practice all the design patterns and principles you have learned throughout the previous nine chapters. The case study is based on an e-commerce site built for a fictional clothes retailer named Agatha's. In this chapter, you are given a set of requirements for the e-commerce site so you can build the infrastructure to support the site's construction in the next four chapters.

AGATHA'S CLOTHING STORE REQUIREMENTS

Figure 10-1 shows the layout of the website you will build. It has three main sections:

• Product Catalog: Customers will be able to view a selection of "top" products from the home page of the site. A full list of product categories will be displayed on all Product Catalog pages, enabling customers to view all products within a given category. A page to display the full details of a product will also be included in the product catalog browsing functionality. Finally, the Product Catalog will include the ability to add products to a basket ready for checkout.

• Customer Account: This is where customers can ...