Hoping that Microsoft Makes the ADO.NET PowerPack Obsolete

I've been talking to Microsoft's WebData/Visual Studio .NET teams about what I don't like about the Typed DataSet Generator in 1.x.  I've been hopeful that it will be fixed in 2.0.  The good news is that its looking good that it might happen in the next Beta drop.  I'll keep you updated!

Comments:

Have you got a list of your issues to share with us?

Joe Wood (Posted Wednesday, January 19, 2005 )

My big issue is the fact that inheriting from Typed DataSets (and their DataTables and DataRows) doesn't work out of the box. They have too much set as Private (both in 1.x and 2.0) as well as some calls that are protected or internal (friend in VB.NET) are not virtual (overridable in VB.NET). If they were inheritable then you could use TDS as the meat of the Business Object sandwich and put your business logic in the derived classes. My Improved Typed DataSet generator (part of the ADO.NET PowerToys project) fixes this by re-creating the Typed DataSet Generator.

Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Wednesday, January 19, 2005 )


 



 
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