ObjectDataSource and DataSets

19 Apr 2006 1:22 PM

Chris Fulstow

Hi all,

I'm investigating the best approach for building an n-tier web
application with ASP.NET 2.0. I want to separate my data access layer,
so an ObjectDataSource seems the natural choice, but I can't decide
whether to supply it data from a custom business object, or a DataSet
created with the DataSet designer.

Any thoughts?

Chris

19 Apr 2006 3:55 PM

MSDN

Chris,

I would use the business layer to indirectly supply me with data, depending
on your security needs.
If you are dealing with secure data then let the security section of the
business layer deal with it since you might not want to fully trust the
front end developers.
if you want n-tier then use it.
At times you might mix but it all depends.

SA

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"Chris Fulstow" <chrisfuls***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm investigating the best approach for building an n-tier web
> application with ASP.NET 2.0. I want to separate my data access layer,
> so an ObjectDataSource seems the natural choice, but I can't decide
> whether to supply it data from a custom business object, or a DataSet
> created with the DataSet designer.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Chris
>

20 Apr 2006 1:45 PM

Chris Fulstow

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I also found a couple of articles on
the subject that were quite useful:

http://www.theserverside.net/articles/showarticle.tss?id=DataSetDesigner
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/01/15/435498.aspx

I also came across the Microsoft Data Access Application Block for
helping to build data access components, does anyone have any
experience of using this?

Cheers,
Chris