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Tip: Inheritance Strategies

Inheritance strategies provide a powerful facility for reducing the development effort and increasing the consistency of your application. The following rules are strongly recommended. If you employ them, you should rarely have to specify a data type, a format definition, and many other properties of a component.

Use SQL Server user-defined data types for your column definitions.
In IDO development, establish IDO property attributes that are inherited effectively by many components without being overridden. You can set up IDO property classes to package default settings for property attributes. All IDO properties based on an IDO property class inherit the class attributes.
In form development, set up property class extensions only if you need them. If components bound to IDO properties commonly override the attributes of the IDO property and if the IDO property inherits from an IDO property class, you can set up a WinStudio property class extension to standardize how these bound components override the IDO property class behavior.
In form development, set up component classes to package the attributes of any type of component. Modifying a component class is a streamlined way of altering the behavior of any component that inherits from the class.

Tip: Inheritance Strategies

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