>>Martin,
>>I have seen this used before in a few apps I maintain, but I didn't know it was an actual pattern - I thought it was the developer doing something quirky and never looked at it again. I will check it out, but it sounds about right.
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>Indeed, you can read a description here (from another Martin):
>http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/lazyLoad.html
>
>And if you really want to get a book on these matters, in fact Fowler's "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" is quite good one (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321127420) and it actually have some C# code (the samples are half Java and half C#).
>
>Regards,

Thanks... I'm mainly VB, so I might struggle a bit through that book, but the practices are what I am interest in. Thanks again!