ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com: Using Strongly-Typed Data Access in Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0

ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com: Using Strongly-Typed Data Access in Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0: "Introduction When we as developers are learning new techniques, examples can be our own worst enemies. Tutorials are designed to be easy to understand, but at the same time they often reinforce lazy, inefficient, and even dangerous coding practices. Nowhere is this more common than in ADO.NET samples. In this article we're going to take a look at what it means to strongly-type objects from your database, and why despite the lack of examples, you will almost always want to do so in your applications. Specifically, we will see how to create and use strongly-typed DataSets in Visual Studio 2005. As this article explores, strongly-typed DataSets offer a number of advantages over alternative, loosely-typed data access techniques and, with Visual Studio 2005, creating and using strongly-typed DataSets has never been easier. Read on to learn more!"