>I have been watching the Pluralsight Tutorials on ASP.NET MVC 3 and I am totally confused to the direction I want to following. It looks like (from the little I understood) that ASP.NET MVC 3 "suggesting" (or maybe even requires) to use the Entity Framework and LINQ. Of course I don't quite understand these technologies and also find them very complicated.
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>A couple of years ago I created a small WinForms app using strongly typed dataset approach. It was slow to understand back then but it was less complicated (I think) and I had more control.
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>So now I am not sure which direction I should follow when building a small ASP.NET application. The application (as the starting point) will be performing the following:
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>1. Get a data set from the SQL Server database.
>2. Display the data in the grid view.
>3. Allow user to switch to a detailed view (where fields are in textbox controls).
>4. Allow user to make changes and save (when click on Save button) the changes to the database.
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>Any suggestions to which approach you like? TIA.

ASP.NET ASPX page with GridView and SQLDataSource. That is by far the simplest.