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DataSet – Taking a stance.

Ted Neward has a crusade against DataSets going on on his blog. At this point in time, I really only ever use them inside a service and only at times when I am horribly lazy or when I code under the influence. Otherwise I just go through the rather quick and mostly painless process of mapping plain data structures (generated from schema) to and from stored procedure calls myself. More control, more interoperability, less...

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TechEd Europe: CTS308, ARC230, ARC405, ARC-IL01

The TechEd Europe session search tool starts to reveal what I am up to in Amsterdam ...

CTS308 Building Proseware, Inc. – a non-trivial service-oriented system (just me)

Proseware, Inc. is an online bookseller. A big one. They have warehouses all over Europe, have millions of customers, sell millions of different items and process tens of thousands of orders every day. So imagine they came around to you and...

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