I really like creating custom value types for encapsulating behavior and additional type safety. Recently, I started adding strongly-typed entity IDs. However, the method I took is slightly different from that other blog post. I figured most of the IDs are going to be the same, only the associated entity type is different. For example, OrderId and UserId, the only difference should the associated Order or User type. Additionally, it’s useful if we can create IDs in generic methods, such as GetNewId<TEntity>().
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