Naming: solution, projects, namespaces and assemblies

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bniwredyc picture bniwredyc · Dec 18, 2009 · Viewed 15.9k times · Source

I'm working on naming guidelines for solutions, projects, their default namespaces and assemblies (Visual Studio). Now it looks like that: For example, we have a company named "Company" and a project named "Project". The project has business logic in separate dll, UI (WPF/WinForms) and a web part. There are names of things listed in the question title:

Solution name: "Project".

Business logic dll project name: "Project", default namespace: "Company.Project", assembly name: "Project".

UI project name: "ProjectUI", default namesapce: "Company.Project.UI" (it can be extended in case of multiple versions of UI, like "Company.Project.UI.WPF"), assembly name "Project" (working because it's not a dll).

Web project name: "ProjectWeb", default namespace: "Company.Project.Web", assembly name: "ProjectWeb" (for web applications).

My questions are: do you have guidelines like that? Is it a good idea to describe thoose things? What you think about my approach?

I'll be glad if you share ways that you use in your work.

Answer

Konamiman picture Konamiman · Dec 18, 2009

You may want to take a look at Microsoft's Namespace Naming Guidelines, which are by the way very similar to yours.

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