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Do I use inheritance/provider model or other

Asked by GuitarRich in C# Programming Language, .NET, Microsoft Visual C#.Net

Tags: Inheritance, C#, Provider Model, Abstract

Ok - I have an interesting problem to solve. In my new project the company has a number of tracking devices - these are GPS trackers that report information back to a central server so that they can be live tracked online. These devices will also be setup via a control panel on the website to change various options on the device etc...

Now the functionality of each device is essentially the same - there are a few extra features in some but not many - the core is the same. However - as is usually the case the data stream they report and the stream to change device settings is different for every single device!

So what I would like to do is have a single interface for the the application to talk to and recieve data from - so a single class with all the common properties etc... and not have to know anything about each device. Then the interface can control working out how to send/recieve data from the specific device.

I've looked into the provider model and it looks similar to what I want - but it seems that each implementation I have seen only use one method - like the asp.net membership model or SqlDataProvider etc... I've not seen it where multiple providers are used in the same application at the same time!

Or should I just use an interface - create that in my program and then have a backend engine that casts the interface to the specific device object and that object knows how to read/write to the device?

Or does anyone have another clever idea :)

Thanks in advance!
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