CSLA Inheritance Issue

Smeat posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Hi All

I'm having a problem with my objects which i'm hoping is not a restriction of using CSLA.

I have a class "NonSpecificVehicleSought" which inherits from a base class "VehicleBase" which in turn inherits from "BusinessBase"

i.e.

public abstract class VehicleBase : BusinessBase<VehicleBase>

public class NonSpecificVehicleSought : VehicleBase

In my NonSpecificVehicleSought  class, I have a factory method call "NewNonSpecificVehicleSought" which calls the DataPortal.Create method.

i.e.

public static NonSpecificVehicleSought NewNonSpecificVehicleSought()

{

    return DataPortal.Create(new Criteria());

}

My problem is that the compiler is complaining:

i.e.

"Error 1 The name 'DataPortal' does not exist in the current context C:\$Crypt\Development\LoyaltyLogistix\Automotive\Autolog\Autolog.Library\Stock\NonSpecificVehicleSought.cs 151 20 Autolog.Library"

Is this a limitation of the CSLA framework of am I doing something silly?

TIA

Smeat

Smeat replied on Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Changing my "NewNonSpecificVehicleSought" method to the following solved my problem:

public static NonSpecificVehicleSought NewNonSpecificVehicleSought()

{

return (NonSpecificVehicleSought) Csla.DataPortal.Create(new Criteria());

}

Guess I should have spent a bit more time looking at this before I posted my original question.

Thx

Smeat