Ok, here is the code with the static modifications.I like this better, but I don’t like the whole “(DBUser)DBObject.FromReader(reader, typeof(DBUser));” (or “(DBUser)DBUser.FromReader(reader, typeof(DBUser));”) thing. It just seems like I’m having to type to much. Then again, the child class could encapsulate some of this passing by type. DBObject /// /// This is the baseclass for [...]