Posted by David Portas on 01/17/07 00:11

Blast wrote:
> Ok, i drew out your diagram and my design thoughts are exactly like
> yours. And I was hoping it wouldn't be.
>
>
> Let me explain. I'm using the windows form (.net) for my UI and there
> are no controls that recognize this pattern, at least not right out of
> the box (not to my knowledge).
>

Obviously the UI code has nothing to do with constructing an effective
data model. The right solutions rarely come "out of the box".

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