I believe everyone in this thread is talking about programmer implemented structs not ones provided by the .Net framework.
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Tristan Reeves Sent: Thursday, 23 August 2012 2:13 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Anyone using structs in C# Business Applications? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.int32.aspx On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Les Hughes <l...@datarev.com.au<mailto:l...@datarev.com.au>> wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Arjang Assadi <arjang.ass...@gmail.com<mailto:arjang.ass...@gmail.com> <mailto:arjang.ass...@gmail.com<mailto:arjang.ass...@gmail.com>>> wrote: Hello I have found myself not needing to use structs for any reason in the vanilla business apps ( DB to front end WindosForms,WPF,ASP.net etc) for past 7 years or so. All BO's are classes, and I can't think of anything more fine grind than that. Unless I have been missing something, my question is to Business App writers, do you use structs any where for any reasons? In all the usuall VS demos I have not seen structs being used ( graphics demos do not count!) Regards Arjang Tristan Reeves wrote: Hi, To answer your specific question, int, double, bool, DateTime are all structs. I can't see any (even vanilla) business application getting by without them, can you? Regard, Tristan. Int is a struct? And yes, I use structs a fair bit for small things. Sure a struct is pretty much an class without methods/functions/whatevertheterminology, and maybe a class would be neater/better suited/etc but when I am returning a few small things, sometimes I'll hack together something like struct sResult { public bool valid, public string[] errors, public string[] warnings } Just so I can have certain bits and pieces come back nicely to the UI. Any reason why this is a bad idea? -- Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au<mailto:l...@datarev.com.au>
