The Blunt Architecture project is a lightweight web application framework showcasing ALT.NET best practices such as:

• Domain driven design
• Test driven development
• Inversion of control / dependency injection
• Model, view, controller

The Blunt Architecture project is based off of the S#arp Architecture project. Where the Blunt Architecture project differs is that it is meant to be used as a learning tool rather than a ready-for-production framework. Because of this, the Blunt Architecture project strives to avoid outside dependencies wherever possible. This allows the user to focus his or her attention on the concepts presented without the added distraction of also having to figure out the syntax and details of third party tools. Although this constraint causes certain tasks to be more tedious (e.g. object relational mapping, dependency injection, etc.), it should make the project more approachable to users unfamiliar with the third party libraries commonly used for simplifying the implementation of these concepts (e.g. NHibernate, StructureMap, etc.).

The overall goal of the Blunt Architecture project is to present ALT.NET best practices in the easiest manner possible while allowing the user the flexibility to plug in whatever third party libraries they wish once they are comfortable with the framework.

Documentation for this project can be found here

To start playing around with the framework, you can download the latest release here or checkout the latest version of the code through Subversion at http://bluntarchitecture.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/