Design Patterns in .NET 6: Reusable Approaches in C# and F# for Object-Oriented Software Design

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D. NesterukDesign Patterns in .NET 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8245-8_14

14. Value Object

Dmitri Nesteruk¹  

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St. Petersburg, c.St-Petersburg, Russia

 

The decision as to whether to make an object a class or a struct is very important, and not just from the performance perspective. Quite often what we really want is a “value plus” – to be able to provide a wrapper around a single value (such as an int) that would do one of the following:

• Carry additional information (data or metadata).

• Provide additional behaviors.

• Provide additional levels of indirection.

Some fairly obvious examples of value object types include

• Money: Carries information about monetary ...