Objects that inherit from MicroFour.StrataFrame.Business.BusinessLayer, i.e. BusinessObjects, have 2 overloads on the constructor. The second one takes an IContainer.



How and when is that used?

In a windows service you get some code like:

      private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null;



      public Service1()

      {

         // This call is required by the Windows.Forms Component Designer.

         InitializeComponent();



         // TODO: Add any initialization after the InitComponent call

      }



would there be any point/benefit to passing 'components' to the BO constructor?

Probably... if you drop a business object onto the service within the service designer, then the code generator will automatically call that method... I believe the service will cycle through it's "components" collection and Dispose() of each item when the service shuts down.

I'll try it.

Tried it...



The error says "The object that the business object has been dropped on must implement MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.IContainerControl.



How do I do that?

Tried inheriting from MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.IContainerControl -

got the following errors. Need documentation and/or guidance about how to implement this stuff on non-visual components.



TEST_FaxSending.Form1' does not implement interface member 'MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.IContainerControl.AddObjectToInitOnLoad(MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.IInitOnFormLoad)'   'TEST_FaxSending.Form1' does not implement interface member 'MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.IContainerControl.AddBusinessObject(MicroFour.StrataFrame.Business.BusinessLayerBase)'   'TEST_FaxSending.Form1' does not implement interface member 'MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.IContainerControl.AddObjectToPreInitOnLoad(MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.IPreInitOnFormLoad)'   C:\_devel\release.90000\TEST-FaxSending\TEST-FaxSending\Form1.Designer.cs   TEST_FaxSending.Form1' does not implement interface member 'MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.IContainerControl.RemoveBusinessObject(MicroFour.StrataFrame.Business.BusinessLayerBase)'   C:\_devel\release.90000\TEST-FaxSending\TEST-FaxSending\Form1.Designer.cs