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This project was born, more or less, two years ago.
I was teaching a C# Course in a High School, and I needed a "cool" project to sum up all the concepts I explained throughout the course. Since (lucky or not) a Social Network is "cool by default", I decided to create a simple Instagram clone.
The guys attending the course appreciated the idea a lot, so I did my best to create a working web project that was also simple but with a significant set of features.
The original project was a .NET Framework 4.6.2 web application created using ASP.NET MVC 4.0 with Entity Framework 6.2 and SQL Server 2014 Express as backing store, and, since I had a lot of fun creating it, I decided to evolve it a little bit...

The project looked interesting, so I decided to use it as my preferred playground for testing new technologies and patterns. Today InstaLike is a web application built using some interesting stuff:

• Domain Driven Design.
• ASP.NET Core.
• CQRS Pattern.
• O/RM Based persistence
• Unit testing and integration testing.
• Unstructured data (images) storage both on-premises and on the cloud).
• Activity logging.
• Cloud-based image recognition using Azure Computer Vision.

• User registration.
• Sharing of pictures.
• Put "Likes" on shared pictures.
• Comments on shared pictures.
• Follow and unfollow users.
• Get notifications when other users interact with the content you shared.
• Pictures Auto-tagging.
• Cloud storage compatibility (e.g. Azure Blob Storage) for pictures.

To work with InstaLike source code, you need:

• ASP.NET Core SDK 3.1.
• Visual Studio 2019 or greater (the free Community Edition is enough), or the IDE you like.
• SQL Server 2014 Express or greater.

1. Download the code.
2. Install the dotnet.exe-based FluentMigrator Runner

dotnet tool install -g FluentMigrator.DotNet.Cli

3. Build InstaLike.Database project

cd InstaLike.Database
dotnet build Instalike.Database.csproj

4. Create the database using the provided script

cd bin\Debug\netstandard2.0\Scripts
sqlcmd -S (local) -E -i DatabaseDefinition.sql -v DatabaseName="InstaLike" StoragePath="<path where you want to store data files>"

5. Run migrations to create database objects

dotnet fm migrate --processor SqlServer2014 --connection "Data Source=(local); Initial Catalog=InstaLike; Integrated Security=True" --tag SqlServerOnPrem --assembly Instalike.Database.dll up

6. Build and run the solution

This project has been built using these awesome Open Source projects:

• ASP.NET Core
• CSharpFunctionalExtensions
• MediatR
• NHibernate
• FluentNHibernate
• FluentMigrator
• Xunit
• FluentAssertions
• Serilog
• Humanizer

Many thanks also to my friend and fellow worker Matteo for the graphic design. I gave him some rough stuff and he made it beautiful!