In the C# programming language, an object can be either a value type or a reference type. While a variable of a value type contains its value, a variable of a reference type contains a reference to an ...

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The result: A lot of if statements! And you have to type them all! Now imagine that the number of validations increases from 10 to 25 because 15 new use cases must be implemented in the next iteration ...

I'm a big fan of domain driven design. One of the key concepts of that approach are what are called value objects: objects that are considered identical because they have the same values in their ...