DogmaSolutions.Entities.Contracts 6.1.346

About this package

This package is part of the Dogma Solutions "Foundation" project.
For more details, see the list of packages below.

Dogma Solutions Foundation

The Dogma Solutions "Foundation" project (2005-2025) is an attempt to provide a basic and modern set of (opinionated):

• Interfaces and abstractions for objects, DTOs, an entities modeling
• Recyclable low-level functionalities
• Simple implementations of most common design patterns

Versions history and versioning criteria

All packages follows the conventions of Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.
Cit.:

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:
1. MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes
2. MINOR version when you add functionality in a backward compatible manner
3. PATCH version when you make backward compatible bug fixes

Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions
to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format.

🚀 v6.1 - Current

• First release date: 2025/11/20
• .NET versions: netstandard2.0, net7.0, net8.0, net9.0
• 💡 Improved Sliding Window Logger
• 💡 Improved Check Constraints generation (added nullability parameters)
• 💡 Improved Data Annotation Validations functions (added "recursive" option)
• 🔗 Use OPC Foundation 1.5

✅ v6.0 - Maintained

• First release date: 2025/10/02
• .NET versions: netstandard2.0, net7.0, net8.0, net9.0
• ❌ Dropped support to net6.0
• 🔗 Use OPC Foundation 1.5 (previously was 1.4)

✅ v5.1 - Maintained

• First release date: 2025/09/03
• .NET versions: netstandard2.0, net6.0, net7.0, net8.0, net9.0
• 🆕 Added CycloneDX SBOM functionalities
• 🆕 Added SPDX SBOM functionalities
• 🔗 Use OPC Foundation 1.4

✅ v5.0 - Maintained

• First release date: 2025/02/19
• .NET versions: netstandard2.0, net6.0, net7.0, net8.0, net9.0
• 🆕 Added support to net9.0
• ❌ Dropped support to net472
• 🔗 Use OPC Foundation 1.4

✅ v4.5 - Maintained

• First release date: 2025/10/01
• .NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0, net7.0, net8.0
• 💡 Changed references to OPC Foundation 1.5 (previously was 1.4)

✅ v4.4 - Maintained

• First release date: 2025/04/07
• .NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0, net7.0, net8.0
• 🔗 Use OPC Foundation 1.4

⚠ v4.3 - Obsolete (Maintained only for security patches)

• First release date: 2024/04/16
• .NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0, net7.0, net8.0
• 🔗 Use OPC Foundation 1.4

❌ v4.2 - EOS

• First release date: 2024/02/09
• .NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0, net7.0, net8.0
• 🆕 Added support to net7.0
• 🆕 Added support to net8.0

❌ 4.1.* - EOS

• First release date: 2024/02/08
• .NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0

❌ 4.0.* - EOS

• First release date: 2023/08/12
• .NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0

❌ 3.2.* - EOS

• First release date: 2023/10/08
• .NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0

❌ 3.1.* - EOS

• First release date: 2023/05/29
• .NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0
• 🆕 Added support to net5.0
• 🆕 Added support to net6.0

❌ 3.0.* - EOS

• First release date: 2022/09/30
• .NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472

❌ 2.0.* - EOS

• First release date: 2020/04/27
• .NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472
• 🆕 Added support to netstandard2.0
• 🆕 Added support to net472
• ❌ Dropped support to net46

❌ 1.0.* - EOS

• First release date: 2017/09/27
• .NET versions: net46

Packages

Every package contains a specific subset of functionalities related to a specific area of interest.
Here follows a list of NuGet packages aggregated by topic.

Application infrastructure and configuration

Extensions to simplify the creation of application infrastructures.

• DogmaSolutions.ApplicationInfrastructure
• DogmaSolutions.AspNetCore
• DogmaSolutions.AspNetCore.Security
• DogmaSolutions.CommandLine
• DogmaSolutions.Configuration
• DogmaSolutions.Configuration.SqlLite
• DogmaSolutions.Configuration.SqlServer

Benchmarking and monitoring

Basic functions to implement integrated benchmarks inside performance-aware applications.

• DogmaSolutions.Benchmarking
• DogmaSolutions.Benchmarking.MicrosoftLogging
• DogmaSolutions.Prtg

Security and cryptography

Functionalities that extend and simplify the usage of existing cryptographic frameworks and security-aware libraries.

• DogmaSolutions.Certificates
• DogmaSolutions.Cryptography
• DogmaSolutions.AspNetCore.Security
• DogmaSolutions.Security
• DogmaSolutions.Security.Ldap
• DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Encryption
• DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Encryption.Abstractions

Primitives, data modeling and data manipulation

Utils to manipulate primitives and low-level data formats.

• DogmaSolutions.Contracts
• DogmaSolutions.Collections
• DogmaSolutions.Collections.Smart
• DogmaSolutions.Csv
• DogmaSolutions.Geography
• DogmaSolutions.Json
• DogmaSolutions.PrimitiveTypes
• DogmaSolutions.Xml

Low-level utils

Low-level utils of various kinds.

• DogmaSolutions.Statistics
• DogmaSolutions.Tasking
• DogmaSolutions.I18n
• DogmaSolutions.ErrorsHandling
• DogmaSolutions.FileSystem
• DogmaSolutions.Networking

Reflection

Reflection functionalities and helpers to discover assemblies and types based on their features and contents.

• DogmaSolutions.Reflection
• DogmaSolutions.Reflection.Discovery

Design abstractions and Design Patterns

Classes, interfaces, datamodels and basic implementations of commonly used design patterns

• DogmaSolutions.DataContracts
• DogmaSolutions.DesignPatterns
• DogmaSolutions.StateMachines
• DogmaSolutions.Services
• DogmaSolutions.Services.Serialization

Industrial automation and system integration

Functionalities to build supervisors of industrial devices.

• DogmaSolutions.Devices
• DogmaSolutions.Devices.I40

IBH devices: functionalities to build supervisors of industrial devices based on IBH technology

• DogmaSolutions.Devices.Ibh
• DogmaSolutions.Devices.Ibh.I40

Siemens devices: functionalities to build supervisors of industrial devices based on Siemens S7 technology

• DogmaSolutions.Devices.Siemens
• DogmaSolutions.Devices.Siemens.I40

OPC-UA-abled devices: functionalities to build supervisors of industrial devices able to communicate via OPC-UA

• DogmaSolutions.Devices.Opc.Ua
• DogmaSolutions.Devices.Opc.Ua.Abstractions

OPC-UA integration: services, utils and extensions to build OPC-UA clients, servers and supervisors

• DogmaSolutions.Opc.Ua.Client
• DogmaSolutions.Opc.Ua.Server
• DogmaSolutions.Opc.Ua.Server.Abstractions
• DogmaSolutions.Opc.Ua.Server.Hosting
• DogmaSolutions.Opc.Ua.Server.Hosting.Abstractions

Media

Images and videos manipulation

• DogmaSolutions.Drawing
• DogmaSolutions.Mjpeg

Data, database and entities

Extensions and basic functionalities to build data-management layers and infrastructures.

• DogmaSolutions.Data
• DogmaSolutions.Data.Materialization
• DogmaSolutions.Data.Sql
• DogmaSolutions.Entities.Contracts
• DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.AspNetCore
• DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Auditing → utils to facilitate the implementation of auditing functionalities at DatabaseContext-level
• DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Contracts
• DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Secured → utils to facilitate the implementation of data-access services including security checks
• DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Unsecured → utils to facilitate the implementation of data-access services without security checks
• DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Utils
• DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Encryption → utils to facilitate column encryption using a configurable key
• DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Checks → utils to create check constraints
• DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Encryption.Abstractions
• DogmaSolutions.SqlServer.LocalDb

Plugins and extensibility

Extensions for lightweight extensibility and pluggability management.

• DogmaSolutions.Extensibility
• DogmaSolutions.Extensibility.HostedEnvironment

Logging

Multiple extensions to industry-standard logging libraries.

• DogmaSolutions.Log4NetExtensions
• DogmaSolutions.MicrosoftLoggingExtensions
• DogmaSolutions.SlidingWindowLogger

Validation

Extensions and utils for datamodels validations

• DogmaSolutions.Validation

Automated testing

Helper functions and classes for automated tests implementation

• DogmaSolutions.Tests

Anagraphics models

Basic archetypes and datamodels of commonly used anagraphic entities

• DogmaSolutions.Anagraphics

License

All packages of the "Foundation" project are released under the MIT License.