This may seem like a dumb question, but here goes:

I am going through the MVC 5 tutorial. So far all the properties in the Models are public.

What is the best practice? Should properties always be public since you want outside objects to be able to get/set them? Or is there any time you'd want them to be restricted or private?

Sorry for the poor forum title BTW. I tried to rename it to something more specific, but I does not seem I can.

another beginner best practice question I have is where to put the dbcontext class. I put it at the root of my project, but I have seen others create a "Concrete" folder and put it there or others put it in the Models folder.

For View Models it doesn't really matter as they are dumb data stores anyway. You could make them internal so they are only visible within the assembly that defines them.

With regards to where you place the DbContext: it doesn't really matter. I typically have it in a separate assembly / Visual Studio project, but if it's within the same ASP.NET application you can place it anywhere you want. I prefer a sub folder for organization though as otherwise your root folder gets too cluttered.

Cheers,

Imar

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