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    <p>I was looking at a project and I found something very curious.</p> <p>There is a static class that has a set of methods, where each method makes a call to a remote server.</p> <p>The template looks kind of like this:</p> <pre><code>public static class DAI public static ResponseObject ExecStatement(string db, string sql) { { ... } } public static DataSetResponseObject GetDataSet(string db, string sql) { { ... } } public static DataTableResponseObject GetDataTable(string db, string sql) { { ... } } } </code></pre> <p>But no where in the project makes a call to this class. Instead, it makes a call to an non-static class container.</p> <pre><code>public class ExecSP : IExecSP { string _db; public ExecSP(string db) { _db = db; } public ResponseObject OutputAsResponseObject(string sql) { return DAI.ExecStatement(_db, sql); } public ResponseObject OutputAsDataSet(string sql) { return DAI.GetDataSet(_db, sql); } public ResponseObject OutputAsDataTable(string sql) { return DAI.GetDataTable(_db, sql); } } </code></pre> <p>Now, the only two things I see as an advantage is that the nomenclature is more clear when wrapped up in a non-static container, and that there are less parameters to pass around.</p> <p>But I'm wondering if this is a good idea by design to wrap up static class with non-static? What are some of the other reasons if there are any? Because I assumed that creating a static and making calls to it would be okay. But this project has made it a deliberate point to wrap up all static class; and I'm not sure why.</p>
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    1. COFirst thing to understand - there's no such thing as a "static object" or a "non-static object". There are static methods, static classes, static variables etc - but not static objects. The design you've discussed does sound odd.
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    2. COThanks for the heads up! I just made the edit
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    3. COIf the original authors of the classes are still present, it would be a good idea to ask them why they did it that way.
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