The Ignia Workbench is a basic application structure to facilitate testing of web-related technologies. At its core, the Ignia Workbench provides a common database, web services, and various client implementations to integrate with. The goal is to establish a consistent environment that facilitates testing of frameworks and libraries which depend on the availability of databases, web services, etc., while also providing a comprhenesive enough structure to allow for more nuanced evaluation of their features. The latter may include, for instance, one-to-many (1:n) relationship, many-to-many (n:n) relationships, cascading deletes, partial updates, etc.
The Ignia Workbench is composed of a series of projects which coordinate with one another. The core of these include:
A baseline C# data model alongside an Entity Framework 6.x implementation for persisting the model to a SQL database. Additionally the model project implements IdentityUser and IdentityDbContext so that it can be integrated with ASP.NET Identity. The basic data model includes User, Post, and Comment classes, along with relationships such as Following, Likes, etc.
A stripped-down version of Visual Studio's out-of-the-box Web API 2.x project template to provide bare-bones support for, in particular, ASP.NET Identity web services (e.g., /Api/Account/Register/). Does not include any of the MVC, Web API Help, or other web-based devependencies that ship with the out-of-the-box template. Additionally includes an OData controller for exposing other elements from the Model project, including User, Post, and Comment end points.
Offers a location for building a variety of web-based client projects, each to be placed in their own directory (e.g., /Angular/). Exposes the end points from the Web API project so they're available for integration; each client project should seek to map to this functionality as a means of comprehensively demonstrate these fundamental patterns (e.g., client-server interation, various data relationships, authentication and authorization, etc).