Is a "data transfer type" the same as a "data transfer object"?

In开发者_JAVA百科 reading about C#, I have come across the terms "data transfer type" and "data transfer object". This shows up around annonymous types, where a type is created on the fly to hold results, such as from LINQ. Are these two terms referring to the same thing ?

Thanks,

Scott

I think some more context would help here.

An anonymous type has method scope. So this means, it cannot be passed outside of it's method. Whereas a Data Transfer Object entire purpose in life is to be passed outside of it's method.

I suspect their creating Data Transfer Types through an anonymous type and then projecting this to a Data Transfer Object.

But yeah, including the sentence you found this term in would help.

The type is the description of the object, it's class and it's methods/properties/variables/...

while the object is an instance of the type.

For example:

// this describes the type Foo
public sealed class Foo
{
    public int ID { get; set; }

    /* ... */
}

// this is an object (instance) of foo
var fooInstance = new Foo() { ID = 4, };