Hey Vic,

Yeah, over the years I've become even more adamant against the dataset. See http://www.utmag.com/wconnect/wc.dll?LevelExtreme~9,7,10,,538

An Objectspaces-like business framework won't be available from Microsoft for a couple more years so Microsoft can't push O/R Mapping yet but using business entities are more in line with the direction that Microsoft is moving, the article on MSDN is just a beginning of geting the word out.

The O/R mapper that I recommend now is Versant. They have great IDE tools including a reverse engineering tool. (If I remember correctly the tool I showed before was CodeSmith. It reads the table schema and creates business objects out of them). It used to be that using entity business objects was a lot of work because of the lack of tools and databinding was a problem. With Versant you can use a domain model in a RAD environment because they have included everything you need with Visual Studio integrated tools.

p.s. I'll send you an email.


>David,
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>Very nice article - it's one of the biggest debates we have here at work. Entity Objects, Business Object, How to do a DAL, How not to do a DAL...
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>All nothing but fun!
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>Remember a while back at the C# Study Group you presented Object Spaces? You once mentioned that there was a website with a tool to assist you in mapping the objects - you remember the site?
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>I hope Object Spaces comes real soon - this will take care of a lot these issues.
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>p.s. We have to get together sometime soon, again. Maybe breakfast with the wives some time.