On 5/18/05, Brandon Goodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a side note. After having toyed with DataSets... I am hard pressed > to see their value in the long run. It's like the EJB of the .NET > world. It's not neccesarily as complex... but it is certainly full of > just as much hot air.
One value I'm running into now is "playing nice with others". We're testing a third-party component, Aspose.Word, * http://www.aspose.com/Products/Aspose.Word/ and the API uses DataSets and DataTables for the more interesting master/child reports. Right now, we're using some simple glue code to convert a HashTable into a DataTable, so that we can pass it to Aspose.Word. Of course, I keep thinking that it would be cool to return a DataTable via a ResultSet instead. :) In my own use case, I don't need a bidirectional, disconnected DataSet. We just need to create a DataTable to pass to this other API. -Ted.
