Structuring projects and managing packages

How should you structure your projects? In this book, we will build multiple projects using different technologies that work together to provide a single solution.

With large, complex solutions, it can be difficult to navigate through all the code. So, the primary reason to structure your projects is to make it easier to find components. It is good to have an overall name for your solution that reflects the application or solution.

We will build multiple projects for a fictional company named Northwind. We will name the solution MatureWeb and use the name Northwind as a prefix for all the project names.

There are many ways to structure and name projects and solutions, for example, using a folder hierarchy as well as a naming convention. If you work in a team, make sure you know how your team does it.

Structuring projects in a solution

It is good to have a naming convention for your projects in a solution so that any developer can tell what each...