What are the disadvantages of Typed DataSets

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The main criticism I would extend is that they don't scale well -- performance suffers because of the overhead, when you get to higher number of transactions, compared to lightweight business entities or DTOs or LINQ to SQL. There's also the headache of schema changes. For an "industrial strength" architecture, they're probably not the way to go, they will cause issues in the long run.

I would still definitely use them for quick and dirty PoCs or simple utilities -- they're really convenient to work with given the tooling in Visual Studio, and get the job done.