POCO

Plain old CLR object

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"POCO" redirects here. For other uses, see Poco (disambiguation).

In software engineering, a plain old CLR object (POCO) is a simple object created in the Common Language Runtime (CLR) of the .NET Framework which is unencumbered by inheritance or attributes. This is often used in opposition to the complex or specialised objects that object-relational mapping frameworks often require^[1]. In essence, a POCO does not have any dependency on an external framework and generally does not have any attached behaviour.