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Flamed

Thursday, August 11, 2005 6:52 AM
As a regular member of the local MS forum here in our place, I felt that I am always the "bad guy" when answering post. Well maybe because I am a new comer unlike most of the people there. I always got flamed when opposing to these ideas:

Architecture
- That having the connection string in the client (Win Form) or putting all those SqlCommands in the UI (Web/Win) is the correct way of doing things.
- That using a WEB SERVICE to manage/centralize the connection string is the way to go.
- That SQLHelper of DAAB is the Data Access Layer.
- That PetShop 3.0 has the best architecture

DataSets vs Collections
- "That Datasets is one the greatest Data Access technology (ADO.Net) that MS developed"
- That DataSets is well suited for persisting data.

OOP
- That System.Reflection is a part of OOP


The rest I can't seem to remember....

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# re: Flamed

You're not alone. I agree with you :) 8/11/2005 9:04 AM | Geoff Appleby

# re: Flamed

Trust me when I say that I've been saying the same thing for years. It's hard to argue because most of the people who work with .NET (and other Microsoft technologies) aren't as tech savvy as some other technologies... mainly because they don't have to be - Microsoft makes things easier for everyone. Most people come from a VB background, it seems, which is mostly drag-n-drop functionality. They're not focused on the code which actually makes things work.

Anyway, I'm with you 100% on this. I will say, however, that ADO.NET is the best data access technology Microsoft has developed. This by no means says that it's the best technology, though. 8/11/2005 10:14 AM | Michael Flanakin

# re: Flamed

"That Datasets is one the greatest Data Access technology (ADO.Net) that MS developed"

I just took this line in the forum I was talking about. Actually the poster was a bit inexperienced (still a student though).

I do agree that ADO.Net is a great technology but saying DataSets are like the best solution of all is a bit of exageration.

The problem with people here is that they praise MS so much.

8/11/2005 11:49 PM | Chris Ongsuco

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