Enterprise Craftsmanship

  • Blog
  • Book
  • TDD Course
  • Pluralsight Courses
  • About
  • Archives

Tag Specification

February 8, 2016

Specification pattern: C# implementation

The topic described in this article is a part of my Specification Pattern in C# Pluralsight course. Specification pattern is not a new topic, there are many of its implementations on the Internet already. In this post, I’d like to discuss the use cases for the pattern and compare several common implementations to each other. 1. Specification pattern: what’s that? Specification pattern is a pattern that allows us to encapsulate some piece of domain knowledge into a single unit - specification - and reuse it in different parts of the code base.

1
Vladimir Khorikov
Vladimir Khorikov
Twitter Email LinkedIn
My book
Unit testing book
Click here to get a 40% discount
Pluralsight courses
Pluralsight ‒ Pragmatic Unit Testing
‒ Domain-Driven Design in Practice
‒ Applying Functional Principles in C#
‒ Database Delivery Best Practices
‒ Specification Pattern in C#
‒ Refactoring from Anemic Domain Model
‒ Domain-Driven Design: Working with Legacy Projects
‒ CQRS in Practice
‒ DDD and EF Core: Preserving Encapsulation
‒ Validation and DDD
‒ Encapsulating EF Core Usage
‒ Prepare for coding interviews with CodeStandard
citadel Citadel Password Manager Privacy first. No data collected, period.
Most Popular Articles
‒ EF Core 2.1 vs NHibernate 5.1: DDD perspective
‒ C# and F# approaches to illegal states
‒ Optimistic locking and automatic retry
‒ Entity vs Value Object: the ultimate list of differences
‒ DTO vs Value Object vs POCO
‒ 3 misuses of ?. operator in C# 6
‒ Specification pattern: C# implementation
‒ Database versioning best practices
‒ Unit testing private methods
‒ Functional C#: Handling failures, input errors
‒ REST API response codes: 400 vs 500
MSMVP
Recent Articles
‒ Storing information in its highest form
‒ Which collection interface to use?
‒ Generic types are for arguments, specific types are for return values
‒ Modeling Relationships in a DDD Way
‒ Encapsulating EF Core Usage: New Pluralsight course
‒ Collections and Primitive Obsession
‒ How to Assert Database State?
‒ Should you Abstract the Database?
‒ Database and Always-Valid Domain Model
‒ Specification Pattern vs Always-Valid Domain Model
» All articles
© 2025 Vladimir Khorikov. Made with Hugo.