With my post, I was thinking of my company's data layer logic - the DataReader object is passed to a private method inside the same class, for the sole purpose of converting the result into an object. The reader is not passed outside of the data layer to anywhere else.
I absolutely agree with Cerebrus that it should not leave the data layer. On Sep 24, 11:28 am, Cerebrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sundar, > > Read my post again. And then again. > > Guys, was my post really so ambiguous ? I don't mind anyone > disagreeing with me but I thought it was obvious to everyone (even the > OP, I would say) that any object can be passed as a parameter. I would > not assume the question to be so naïve. The question is significant > because the DataReader is not just *any* object. Rhaazy, in my > opinion, that is not the "unnecessary" part of the question, but the > crucial part of the question. It is what makes the question worth a > second thought. > > I would strongly discourage anyone passing around an active DataReader > through various layers and applications. I would much rather extract > the data into another data store or collection first and dispose of > the DataReader immediately. > > But that's just me. > > On Sep 24, 11:05 pm, "sundar irene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > data reader is not disconnected object only dataset is disconnected object > > On 9/24/08, Cerebrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "Alright" ?? No, I don't think it would be alright at all. If it were > > > a disconnected data store, I wouldn't have any reservations, though. > > > > On Sep 24, 2:50 pm, Benj Nunez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > Just out of curiosity: Is it alright to pass a datareader object to a > > > > method or not?- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DotNetDevelopment, VB.NET, C# .NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XML Web Services,.NET Remoting" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://cm.megasolutions.net/forums/default.aspx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
