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Asked: 2026-05-10T19:23:41+00:00

I’m thinking about how to do this, but I have several different shapes of

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I’m thinking about how to do this, but I have several different shapes of Data in my Database, Articles, NewsItems, etc.

They All have something in common, they all have IDs (in the DB they’re named ArticleID, NewsID etc. )

They all have a Title

They all have BodyText.

They all have a Status

They all have a DateAdded

What I’d like to do is standard class inheritance.

I’d like a Master Class (I don’t need to write this to the database) called Content with fields like:

  • ID
  • Title
  • SubTitle
  • BodyText
  • Status
  • AddedDate

I’m not sure how I can do this with the ORM. Why I want this is because then I can pass a list of COntent to my UserControl which is responsible for Rendering it. It will only need the information that is common to all objects.

Is this even possible?

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  1. This is what Interfaces are for. Have each class implement an IContent interface that contains your Title, BodyText, Status and DateAdded properties. Now you can pass around a collection ( List<IContent> ) around that could containt different types of content.

    If you’re using LinqToSql you can create partial class files to have the autogenerated classes implement the interface you want.

    public partial class SomeContent : IContent
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