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schema; the other link presents a dialog box with more detailed proper-
ties of the DataSet object.All of this comes at a price.A Strongly
TypedDataSet is slower than its weaker typed sibling.The advantage is in
speed of development, and the compile time enforcement of DataTypes.
The wizard creates a DataSet, so if we only need read-only access to the
data, a SQLDataReader would provide much more speed; not just with
the same ease of development. In addition to the enforcement of
column names and DataTypes during development and compilation, the
TDS lets us access our DataTables and DataColumns using Intellisense.
Data access ...