Question

In VB.NET, I am trying to talk to a webservice (that can’t be changed) to create and update customer data. The CreateCustomer service expects an object of type ConsumerPerson and the ChangeCustomer service expects an object of type ChangeData.

The properties of these two object are exactly the same, so I thought it would be wise to just set the properties using one single function.

However, I am unable to find a way to tell my function that I want to fill either the ConsumerPerson or the ChangeCustomer object.

How do I make this work without late binding problems?

Answer 1

An interface sounds like your best approach. Here is a short code snippet. I picked a simple property named ‘Name’ of type string. It should be easy to modify with the actual properties on your class.

Public Interface ICustomerData   ReadOnly Property Name As String End Interface  Public Class ConsumerPerson   Implements ICustomerData    Public ReadOnly Property Name As String Implements ICustomerData.Name     Get       return _name      End Get   End Property End Class  Public Class ChangeData   Implements ICustomerData    Public ReadOnly Property Name As String Implements ICustomerData.Name     Get       return _name      End Get   End Property End Class