What is the difference between Invariants and Validation Rules?

Question

I often see the term Invariants in DDD. Here Dino Esposito talks about it. If I look at the .NET library, I see a ValidationAttribute class. Are Invaria

Answer 1

Yes, I think so

In DDD, validation rules can be thought as invariants. The main responsibility of an aggregate is to enforce invariants across state changes for all the entities within that aggregate.

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