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It appears that MS not only provided VS 2005 with a new “Object Datasource” - allowing me to bind controls to business objects, MS also has become more and more vocal about the need of using proper domain objects instead of datasets. Thats nice. After 3+ years of railing against datasets as the “cure-all of .NET” I feel as though MS listened to to its customers. Nice. Steve Lasker, Program Manager with VS specifically pointed out in an interview that datasets should be used in the most generic, least demanding type of situations (I’m paraphrasing). He is not the only one. There are articles apeparing on MSDN that laud the usefulnes of objects of datasets and folks like Rocky Lotkha are mentioning this state of affairs at MS in various conferences. Cool.