More Notes on Typed Datasets
In a recent MSDN Magazine article, Efficient Coding with Strongly Typed Datasets, John Papa discussed the common practice of extending standard ADO.NET datasets through auto-generated derived classes that wrap much of the complexity and inefficiencies one faces with “raw” datasets. The article highlights some of the benefits of this approach as well as some of the caveats. However, there are a number of essential points that developers and architects need to be aware of both in going down this route and actually negotiating the path. This article covers various enhancements and additional benefits to this approach as well as important caveats and potential pitfalls (and how they can be avoided) that are generally less well covered but nonetheless important.
The full article is available here on the asp.netPRO website (registration required) or in print in the March 2005 edition.