DataSet Hater-ation Links
Scott Mitchell opens with the cannon volley called “Why I Don’t Use DataSets in My ASP.NET Applications.” Scott shows much respect for the data reader, such as SqlDataReader. I would as well. However, DataSet objects allows ASP.NET programmers to cache relations among entities. When keeping and consulting these relations become somehow important then DataSet objects look a little better. This might be the sentence to mention Jelle Druyts’ “DataSets Are Not Evil.”
After you decide to use data readers, Ryan Farley follows up with his evangelical rant, “If you don’t call Dispose then you’re going to hell!”