Plain Old CLR Object vs Data Transfer Object

Question

POCO = Plain Old CLR (or better: Class) Object

DTO = Data Transfer Object

In this post there is a difference, but frankly most of the blogs I read describe P

Answer 1

I wrote an article for that topic: DTO vs Value Object vs POCO.

In short:

• DTO != Value Object
• DTO ⊂ POCO
• Value Object ⊂ POCO