The Complete ASP.NET Core 3 API Tutorial: Hands-On Building, Testing, and Deploying

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9. Data Transfer Objects

Les Jackson¹ 

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Melbourne, VIC, Australia

 

Chapter Summary

In this chapter we’ll complete the final piece of our architectural puzzled and introduce Data Transfer Objects.

When Done, You Will

• Understand what Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) are.

• Understand why you should use DTOs.

• Have started to implement DTOs in our solution.

Architecture Review

Outlining what we’ve either (a) started to implement or (b) fully implemented, our architectural is evolving nicely.

Figure 9-1

Architecture Progress

To summarize, we’ve

• Fully implemented ...