CSLA.net - Inheritable Base classes

Answer 1

Here you can find what you need:

http://www.lhotka.net/cslanet/download.aspx (see Framework, test, samples)

But before that take a look at this article:

The CSLA Framework; what is in it for me?

Answer 2

The ProjectTracker sample (which can be downloaded on the CSLA downloads page) has examples of all the main sterotypes used in the CSLA books.

Chapter 6 in the book (Object Orientated Application Design) gives an overview of the design process of business objects & Chapter 8 (Business Object Implementation) gives the actual implementation of the Project Tracker objects.

In terms of your specific query - I haven't often used "Read-only root" objects. However, I often use "Read-only list root" objects though. An example would be: I have a list called ProductInfoList, which has a read-only child ProductInfo. This would be returned to the user either in a ListBox, or from a search result, etc.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

I would also recommend checking out our CSLA 3.8 templates. I had this same dilemma when I was learning CSLA. He does provide sample snippets of what each BO Type should look like but I don't find this very helpful to visualize. You could take a look at our templates and run the quick start against one of your databases that you are familiar with and modify the different BO Types per table to get a better understanding of how CSLA works.