A number of people I have run into, and to some extend even I myself, have been confused about the use of ADO.NET datasets versus the concept of building your own Domain Object Model and using datareaders and commands to manage the db access portion of a system.
I am wondering what experience the members of this list have had with ADO.NET. Have you found the productivity of a dataset outweighs the control of building your own Domain Model? What about the argument that the functionality that comes with datasets comes at a cost and frequently you don't need all that extra "stuff". Finally, is there any sort of information that determines the "cost" of a datasets functionality. By that I'm interested in an argument like " Yes certainly the dataset has extra functionality but it only adds XXX percent to the overhead of a given class or object." Maybe this isn't even a consideration at all? Anyways, the more feedback you could give the better. Or if this has been discussed on the list, could you refer me to the posts? Thanks Thomas You can read messages from the Advanced DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from Advanced DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
