I just finished a piece for Code Magazine on this. The thesis of the article deals with building a vb .net class that can best be described as a data-tier class that manages the creating of datasets and the retreval, updates, inserts, and deletes of data.

IMO, the data adapter requires a lot of setup (table mappings, etc) that add alot of overhead. At this stage of the game, I have made the conclusion that they take away efficiency as opposed to enhancing efficiency. I may be wrong and if I am, I hope that somebody will correct me on this...

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I dunno - all I've got is the "alpha" copy and I'm not sure it was even dealing with it. BTW - I heard that you were advocating "not using data adapters and/or command builder" recently? Is this accurate and if so, what is best approach you've found?
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