是否有.NET（C＃）的信号发射器/使用者引擎（如Django）

Question

Has .NET (C#) anything like Django's Signals engine?

Our business logic become really complicated over few years of adding new features. I'm going to re-architecture it. Currently all features are very coupled that makes regression errors while changing something one one place - some other place may be broken.

I really like Django's apps idea where separate applications introduce new functionality and are absolutely separate. Communication between apps is implemented though signals.

I wounder if there is something in .NET that allows to divide project business to many separated "apps" (plug-ins, zones, modules, you name it) and make communication using some kind of "signals".

For example we have simple order flow. We can add "coupon app" that if exists in the project adds abilities to use discount coupon. We can add "cross sale" module that if exists adds abilities to offer cross-sale products Email notification module that if exists adds abilities to send order email notifications. But in the same time all this modules are "self-contained" means that communication between them is done using emitting signals (ORDER_PROCCESS_START, ORDER_SUCCESS, etcs) and other modules can subscribe to this signals and process them in required way.

This architecture is not related to web, all business logic is processed on the server side like without working with HTTP directly.

I wonder if it's good architecture from code maintaining and testing point of few, is it possible to do this in .NET? Any drawbacks that I don't realize now?

Answer 1

I am not to familiar with Django - but immediately two frameworks come to mind

1) Prism

2) MEF

Now, I know thatt Prism is really a UI Pattern - but the event agregator which they use in it may be useful in segmenting / messaging between loosely coupled projects

My hunch is though something like MEF may be closer to what you are wanting, where you can make plugins to extend the functionality of the application.