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burnt1ce
burnt1ce

Reputation: 14897

How do you organize your Utility functions?

I'm programming in an ASP.NET environment and Im thinking of separating my utility functions into 3 classes - Presentation.cs, Business.cs, Data.cs. What do you think? How do you organize your utility functions?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 676

Answers (3)

Jam
Jam

Reputation: 296

Normally my class composition is decided by looking at the type of data used or the relationships between the methods I have to organize.

I then wrap my utility classes in a .Utilities namespace and separate them physically into a folder with the same name.

This usually implies that anything contained is used for utility purposes.

Upvotes: 0

Mike Hofer
Mike Hofer

Reputation: 17022

That depends on what they do. Largely, I group my utility functions into classes based on what they operate on. I tend to ignore the guideline that specifies a minimum number of methods per class; if it makes sense for a method to belong to a class because it operates on a specific type of data, then it goes into a class, number of methods be damned.

However, these days, utility methods are typically prime candidates for extension methods. So that factors in quite frequently.

Upvotes: 3

JaredPar
JaredPar

Reputation: 755141

I organize my utility functions based on the type of data they process. I also give the class and file name the Util suffix to distinguish it as a general purpose utility class. For instance

  • PresentationUtil.cs
  • EnumUtil.cs
  • LambdaUtil.cs

Upvotes: 4

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