C#

interface IDataAccess {
   int SomeData { get; set; }
   ...
}

public class DataHandler {
   private IDataAccess dataAccess;
   public DataHandler(IDataAccess dataAccess) { this.dataAccess = dataAccess; }
   public void DoSomething() {
      // here you can access the data through the dataAccess interface:
      this.dataAccess.SomeData = 42;
   }
}

public struct SomeStruct : IDataAccess {
   public DataHandler Handler;
   public SomeStruct() {
      Handler = new DataHandler(this);
   }
   public int SomeData { get {...} set {...} }
   ...
}

John Cardinal wrote:

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

John Cardinal wrote:

I can't just take the similar bits and make a new class out of them because it's a big struct and method to fill that struct from a database

gantww wrote:

I posted one this morning about writing a custom tool

John Cardinal wrote:

What I'm currently doing is copying and pasting but this is tedious and what I'd really like to do is define the chunks of code that are common and have the compiler insert them into the classes on compiling. AFAIK this isn't a feature in visual studio 2k5 or c#.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?