>>Some of the more irresponsible statements I've ever seen have come from those trying to bash them - partly because they're misunderstood, and partly because people lump them in with other less-desirable features (like TableAdapters). A few years ago I worked with a developer on a project who thought he was supposed to hate typed datasets, because much of what he read on blogs from his favorite authors led him to believe typed datasets were "evil". Well, he worked with them and finally made up his own mind. :)

I'm a .NET newbie, so I can't bash anything intelligently, but I started with TD's and then learned LINQ TO SQL classes and I find LTS classes easier to use. I just sailed thru a small but datacentric app with just a few lines of code for the data handling.

I'd assume that TD's execute faster. Is that the case?