Why POCO objects are created using classes instead of structs [duplicate] - c#

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When should I use a struct rather than a class in C#?
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Why POCO objects are created using classes instead of structs in C#, while POCO is intended to carry only public attributes and not any behaviors?
Do we really need to create a class with get and set accessors? I think structs would be much cleaner and simple to carry object's state.

In C#, struct type is a value, so looks that it is not a good choice.

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I suppose this is related to dependency injection. Rather than having a library with registered objects, I'm looking for an alternative.
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For example in a nice functional language like Haskell I can say something like the following to alias an existing type to a custom Type Name
type MyCustomTypeName = String
I'd like to do this as I have an API that I'm building where some of the Objects I'm using have multiple possible names in the sense they could be referred to by several terms which are interchangeable and equivalent. Presumably I could do this with inheritance but that seems somewhat clunky and then potentially breaks if people start extending the non-canonical class ie.
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