Creating Database Folder for Database project

[garywoodfine]

After some experience on a fairly large project we're worked on internally for client. We feel that there is an opportunity to update the API Solution Template with a bit more of a refined approach for the Database projects and what we have name DTO's.

We found that for smaller projects this layout my work well, but we have discovered some frustrations when the Microservice project grows and more complexity is introduced.

We are now proposing to add 2 additional folders to the API Solution Template i.e.

• Database
• Domain

Database Folder

Within the Database folder we will be moving the Database.proj and the Models.proj project files.

Domain Folder

We will be moving the DTO's project into this folder however we will also be renaming the project and namespace to Domain.

Motivation

There are several motivations for making this change:

1. Closer to the Domain Driven Design Principles. The Domain library will be the main repository for Domain and Value Objects.
2. The DTOs naming convention was often misleading and obscured the actual intention of the library
3. We wanted to group the database and models projects together with the intention of making it clearer that they belong and change together (cohesion)