prefixing DTO / POCOS - naming conventions?

c# naming-conventions poco dto
mark smith picture mark smith · Jul 2, 2009 · Viewed 8.1k times · Source

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

Reed Copsey picture Reed Copsey · Jul 2, 2009

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.

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