Question

If I was using a “Partitioned Single Solution” strategy to build my .Net projects and solutions, could anyone comment on, or share any experiences about why it would be a bad idea to include dot notation in my solution names as such…

    master.sln
    master.sub.sln

…also let me know if you think it’s a good idea? Please note that I’m not looking for someone to ask me “why don’t you just use underscores or dashes”. I’m just curious about any specific reasons why you wouldn’t want to use periods.

Thanks,
-Matt

Answer 1

No reason not to use dots. I use them all the time, particularly since our company names all projects/solutions like this:

Solutions:
CompanyName.DepartmentName.Application

Projects:
CompanyName.DepartmentName.Application.ProjectName