Suggestions for implementing a simple search for “business objects” in a .NET WinForms app?

Question

What\'s the best way to go about providing a simple search capability for \"business objects\" in a .NET WinForms application?

By \"simple search\" I mean something

Answer 1

I think your approach of use a "Contains" method in each object is quite usefull.

You can give "weight" to the members of the object so that if the contains method finds a match, give a sort of "Score" as a return.

Other thing to take into account is whether the match is a full match or not... and assign more or less point to that score.

If you search accross multiple types of objects... may be you can assign higher values to the main objects (more business centric objects) in order to give them more priority.

Just thoughts...