This post is a brief update to the .NET 3.5 article I posted about P.I. lazy loading. The only major change I have made to the code is to use the new Lazy<T> class that was introduced in .NET 4.0. This considerably cleans up the LazyLoadingList<T> class from the previous post.

Introduction – A Word Of Warning

First off – I do not recommend you write your own hand-rolled data access solution for an OO .NET application. Ayende has a great post that should convince you to use something like NHibernate, LLBLGen, Entity Framework, or Linq2Sql. I strongly agree with him. I’ve worked on several projects which had a hand rolled, stored procedure based DAL. All of the DALs that were of a medium-to-large-size eventually turned into a huge mess, or something with tons of friction and poor performance. That being said, I am not allowed to use an ORM at my current employer, and I know that many others are not as well. That being the case, I think this post may be of use for other people in the same situation.