Microsoft released a sample database which can be used to explore and practice using the various features of Sql Server. Adventure Works is a fictitious, multinational bicycle manufacturing company. The database is an enterprise solution which covers Sales/Marketing, Product, Purchasing/Vendor and Manufacturing scenarios.
A while ago I talked about the standard architectural approach at work . The truth is I'm not completely taken with putting an API in, particularly when its a small application. So how would an application look without the API? Well, I know all of the patterns, but I haven't actually put them together and had a poke around and understood the whys and wherefores of each design decision, so I thought I would give it a try...
At work we have started moving towards a standard .NET application architecture for most of our apps. This uses MVC 5 website with a REST client talking to a Web API 5. When you open a visual studio solution, as a minimum you see the following projects...