Choosing between immutable objects and structs for value objects

Question

How do you choose between implementing a value object (the canonical example being an address) as an immutable object or a struct?

Are there performance, semantic or

Answer 1

I actually don't recommend using .NET structs for Value Object implementation. There're two reasons:

• Structs don't support inheritance
• ORMs don't handle mapping to structs well

Here I describe this topic in detail: Value Objects explained