July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
27h 38m
English
There is no doubt that DataSets have served programmers well over the years. And if what you need is an in-memory database object model, or a generic data container, they still remain useful today. The DataSet also has many features to make it “work” like a business object. You’ve seen how a typed DataSet supplies properties for the Customer table similar to how you’d code the properties a Customer entity class yourself. And because you can embed your own business logic and validations directly into a typed DataSet by leveraging partial classes, DataSets can deliver many of the same encapsulation benefits that object-oriented designs offer when working with pure business entities.
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