Date: 04/20/06 (C Sharp)    Keywords: software, web

I'm writing some inventory control software (still!) and I've got a question about how best to implement my business objects.

Basically, my question is, do my Business Objects themselves encapsulate the functionality of updating themselves? For example, should I have methods such as InventoryItem.UpdateToDB and InventoryItem.GetFromDB?

Does anyone here have some good website or book recommendations for these kind of questions? I've always been a good coder, but I'm never sure of my actual design skills.


Also, what is the best way to check foreign key constrains? Should I use some kind Relation class like a dataset has, or is there a better\easier\doubleplusgooder way?

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