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    <p>I am relatively new to .Net and the database side of it in particular.</p> <p>I'm planning to rewrite some legacy VB6 applications here using .Net and C# with Visual Studio 2008.</p> <p>I've studied things like strongly typed datasets, Table Adapters, etc. It works quite well but I find strongly typed datasets to not be perfectly manageable, especially when database schemas change and the code feels way more procedural than object-oriented. I find that it tends to clutter the code a lot as well and the generated type names tend to be very long...</p> <p>Considering that I'm relatively inexperienced with .Net, I do not really want to increase my learning curve even more, since after all, I have deadlines... I've looked at things like NHibernate and it looks intimidating... I'm not sure to have the time to understand how their XML files, etc, work at the moment...</p> <p>In short, should I bother with ORM at the moment or wait that I have built more experience with .Net, and ADO.net... even if it means having to rewrite the application to use ORM in a few months when I'll be settled.</p> <p>I realize it is a subjective question, but I'm sure the answer of experienced developers who traveled both roads or had to train new recruits would be useful to me.</p> <p>Thanks in advance,</p>
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    1. COForgot to mention that ADO.net datasets and datatables are pretty easy to bind to controls, which is a big plus. Not sure how complicated it is with most ORM tools...
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    2. COIf it's a simple CRUD app which just needs data displaying on the screen this isn't a bad approach, but if you have any kind of complex logic (business rules etc), datasets quickly become difficult to work with, which is when you stop using them and go with writing your own classes to hold the data. This is also where ORMs come in. It's worth pointing out though that (unlike VB6 & WinForms), most modern presentation technologies (like WPF & MVC) are good at data binding to anything, so there isn't really an advantage to using datasets because of that now.
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