Question

simple question really, i was wanting to know what naming conventions anybody puts on there DTO / POCOS ….

I didn’t really want to prefix like hungarian notation.. i got away from that!.

But my dtos naming are clashing with my actual returned object names and although they are in a different namespace its still a bit confusing..

I was wondering what naming conventions anybody applies to it

for example my customer object is called Customer

and i do a mapping to dto … which is Customer.. iwas thinking DtoCustomer ..

Not sure

Anyone ?

Answer 1

I prefer to use namespaces for this. Using namespace aliases for this makes it even more clear.

This would make code that looks like:

Customer myCustomer = new Customer();
Dto.Customer dtoCustomer = ....;

If I’m working entirely in the DTO layer, I still can work with “Customer” at this point.