factory question

[Chris]

Hi,
In my DAL i was thinking of adding a helper factory which will return a
SQLHelper class or OracleHelper class. Is this a good idea? If so, can the
helper class be singleton?

Thanks

[Greg Young [MVP]]

The data access application block does this.

Description:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tml/entlib.asp
Download:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Cheers,

Greg
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Hi,
In my DAL i was thinking of adding a helper factory which will return a
SQLHelper class or OracleHelper class. Is this a good idea? If so, can the
helper class be singleton?

Thanks