>As for typed datasets, I honestly don't know why you continue with that. I acknowledge that typed datasets have overhead. They are not perfect. But they were (and still are) an absolutely viable option for business-level reporting against transactional databases. Admittedly they lend themselves better to specific reporting tools - so YMMV on how much value they'll provide. But I would make an argument that some people who rather inattentively criticize them have probably not worked very much on line-of-business apps in a multi-developer scenario.
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>Bonnie Berent (Bonnie DeWitt) got me into typed datasets back in the 2002 period and she's always been a huge advocate of them. (She also got me thinking years ago about ways to automate their use in a changing database environment). Cathi Gero also has posts here from years ago on the topic. Care to point me to a post where you chided either of them for supporting typed datasets?
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I became a Bonnie disciple as well. Somewhere around 2010 I think.


Since then I've built a fairly robust framework - jumping off from Bonnie's- that allows me to do CRUD, transaction processing and reporting pretty efficiently with typed datasets.

If I were starting from scratch, I'd probably be using EF, but I see no benefit in backfilling, so I'm staying with what I have.