I have created a class called DataAccess. It's in its own project in the solution. It contains a static reference to my SqlDataAccess class. Right now I have a method in it called GetCompanies() that returns a dataset containing one or more companies.

In the GetCompanies method I was considering populating a generic list containing instances of the Company class and returning that to the UI layer, instead of returning a dataset.

Anyone think there's any benefit to this? Pro's Cons?


Thanks