One other design question.

Should I make my BizObjects part of the appliation, or
separate projects?

I ws considering building them a separate projects, compiled
as DLL's, so that I could easily swap them out as needed.





>>Sound about right?<
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>Perfect!!
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>~~Bonnie
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>P.S. - Although, if you ever want to use Web Services, you'll need to revamp your UI to call the Web Service instead of a BO class. The Web Service will call the BO classes.
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>>Ok then, here's my plan:
>>
>>I will create a data access class which will have functions for
>>creating & returning connection objects, receiving and passing to
>>the DB queries and stored procedure calls, and the like. This class
>>will be the only class that knows about which DB to access and
>>any connection info.
>>
>>I will then create a BizObj base class that instantiates the data access
>>class and maintains a connection.
>>
>>The BizObj base class will then be subclassed for each required BO. Each
>>BO will have functions approppriate to the BO, such as GetClientByID() for
>>the Client BO.
>>
>>The GUI can then instantiate the BO's and call the required functions to get
>>or manipulate data as needed.
>>
>>Sound about right?
>>
>>
>>
>>>Kevin,
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>>>No matter which way you end up doing it, keep in mind that the way to make this the most flexible is to do all your data access in a separate class. Don't put data access code in your UI classes.
>>>
>>>~~Bonnie
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>>>
>>>>Well everyone,
>>>>
>>>>I've gotten to different answers on this;
>>>>
>>>>Open the connection and keep it open, and open the
>>>>connection when you need it, then close it.
>>>>
>>>>As I said in an earlier post, I dont expect to use
>>>>this app across the web anytime soon. It is primarily
>>>>a desktop app, which might later access the data on a LAN.
>>>>
>>>>So I guess I will open the connection and leave it open.
>>>>I could always change that later.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for all the input!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>In a .Net application, do I want to create a connection
>>>>>on application startup, or only when I'm ready to access
>>>>>the data?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks