What are the disadvantages of Typed DataSets

Question

I come from a world that favors building your own rather than rely on libraries and frameworks built by others. After escaping this world I have found the joy, and ease, of usin

Answer 1

Datasets are nice for quickly slapping something together with visual studio, if all the issues mentioned previously are ignored. One problem I did not see mentioned is the visual scalability of datasets within the design surface of Visual Studio. As the system grows, the size of the datasets inevitably becomes unwieldy. The visual aspects of the designer simply don't scale. It is a real pain to scroll around trying to find a particular table or relation when the dataset has more than 20 or so tables.