Use Strongly Typed IDs for Entities
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If you are applying Domain-Driven Design and wish to implement a strongly typed ID for your entity class, then pay attention.
Many .NET programmers choose to define a record that wraps a primitive type, such as GUID.
Don't do this.
A record is a class, implying needless allocation, garbage collection, and performance penalty.
Use a readonly record struct instead. It is a value type that causes no overhead.
Expose a convenient factory property to create an empty ID.
And another to instantiate a unique value.
Then, use these in the entity class like a sir.
Strongly typed ID also gives you the opportunity to choose the underlying value and algorithm, such as lexicographically sortable identifiers.
Come to my channel and watch the full demo in .NET.
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