Infrastructure utilities and interfaces exposed to your business logic and domain model.

Provide hyper-thin support for application frameworks:

• WCF
• WCF REST
• ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET Web API
• System.Configuration

Provide hyper-thin support for patterns:

• Repository
• CQRS
• Event Brokering

The core Contractual library promises never to take dependencies on other NuGet packages; it will always be a single, stand-alone assembly and NuGet package. Other supporting libraries, such as Contractual.WebApi might take dependencies on external NuGet packages...but those are dependencies always kept to a bare minimum.

• WCF
  • Proxy[T]: This is a wrapper around the WCF ClientBase<T>.
    • Gaurantees proper disposal of ClientBase<T>, which circumvents the long-standing Indigo Disposable bug.
    • Allows hyper-simple testing, merely by implementing (stubbing / mocking) a ServiceContract interface.
    • Supports ClientBase<T> asynchronous invocations, which are based on IO completion ports,while still ensuring that each ClientBase<T> is properly disposed.
• ASP.NET Web API
  • MetaClient: This is a subclass of ASP.NET Web API HttpClient.
    • Uses generic methods to add meta-data capabilities such as: type-safe return values and encapsulated resource paths.
    • Provides a custom configuration section which holds endpoint addresses, TLS certificate info, serialization parameters and more.
• System.Configuration
  • CollectionElementList<T>: Generic support for creating custom configuration section collections.

...this document is incomplete. Stay tuned.