[AccessD] Scrum (was: Find First in an Array? ...)

Hi Charlotte

Yes, even though datatables are strongly typed, I would like to move further and the ADO.NET Entity Model offers that. However, wether this represents _the_ solution or if one should go with "my own" datasets or something else, there are many opinions about.

So to find out, I'm working on a small project now where I use the ADO.NET Entity Model. 
Do you - or anyone else here - have experience with this?

/gustav


>>> cfoust at infostatsystems.com 25-02-2009 23:37 >>>
Gustav,

You really need to get familiar with strongly typed datasets in .Net.
You can build data entity classes that inherit the typed datasets and
then program against the data entity instead of directly against
tableadapters and datatables.

Charlotte Foust

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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Scrum (was: Find First in an Array? ...)

Hi Shamil

That could be an interesting exercise - all these tools would be new to
me, and converting an Access app to .NET WinForms will probably be a
task we all will face sooner or later (William is all about it, so he
says). I have only done WinForms from scratch.

One discussion will be how to perform data binding. Having used only
datatableadapters and datatables, I find all the SqlClient and
SqlCommand stuff for totally waste of time while I on the other hand
currently is struggling with the ADO.NET Entity Model as it looks
promising to me for many purposes. A bit like the tag/class discussion
... which I stayed off as I've never used a Tag for anything.

/gustav