Datareaders still work. Microsoft is currently pushing Entity Framework. Don't bother with all the GUI wizardy stuff. Go directly to EF Code First.


>I'm back at accessing some sql data in c#.
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>Whats flavour of the month on the best and easiest way to do this. I'm not creating a framework and am more than happy to hard code some things in.
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>I want to read all the rows in a table and use it to update some data via a web service and update rows back on the table depending on the web service response,
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>Previously I've used datareaders etc.
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>Any thoughts