read-only property....but.....

[Guest_imported]

OK...here's the scenario.
I've got a object called Product, which is a singular product that can be loaded, updated from a DB.
The Product ID is a read-only property, that is generated as of the last ID and should not be set by UI.

Now, the problem is that as well as all this, I want to, as the very first thing in the app, load ALL products from the DB into a collection class, and to do this, I need to (obviously) assign those ID's from the DB to the Product (singular) object.

Of course, I cannot do this being that i've set the ID property as read-only. So...if I set it writable, then I compromise the integrity of the object by allowing UI to set this.

What is a solution for this? Any ideas are helpful...

ta much,
MG

 

[chiph]

If your class is not instantiable from outside your project, you could create a sub that accepts a ADODB Fields collection. Inside the sub you'd loop through the fields collection, setting your internal variables to the contents.

This would make things a little more private.

Chip H.