Maurizio,

>On a few part of the code I have this call that retrieves all entityes of an BO
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> this.[BO name].GetAllEntities();
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>I would like to use some "generic" way so that I can copy/paste this piece of code to new forms, without modifying the BO name.
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>So is there a way to do something like this:
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> this.PrimaryBizObj.GetAllEntities();
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>This above line does not work because this.PrimaryBizObj is of type mmBaseBusinessObject and GetAllEntities() is a method of the specific BO entity type.

Based on the way inheritance works with Generics in .NET, you can’t access the GetAllEntities() method with a reference to a generic type. You can only access this method on a specific instance of the class. That said, you *can* call GetAllData() instead, which is a method that belongs to mmBusinessObject by doing the following:

((mmBusinessObject)this.PrimaryBizObj).GetAllData();

Note that you should call this method after the call to InitializeComponent() in the form’s constructor. To harden your code even further, you can check if this.PrimaryBizObj != null and perform the cast to mmBusinessObject using the “as” operator.

Best Regards,