ADO.NET Deisgn

[Tarey]

Hi,

When you connect to a database and retrieve data, ususally
that data is displayed in a textbox, listbox, grid, etc.
The books I've read usually to this. But shouldn't a class
be created, then have the data populate the class then
display it. For example, instead of having employee
information - name, pay, etc., retrieved by a datareader
and displayed in textboxes, should an Employee class be
created first? Then the information from the database
could populate the Employee class or a collection of
emplolyee classes be displayed.

Does anyone know of books, examples, or other resources
that discuss this?

TIA,
Tarey

 

[Kathleen Dollard]

Tarey,

YES!

It is unfortunate that so many examples try to make things so simple that
they do it in a way that's just wrong for the real world.

You might try www.fawcette.com. There are numerous articles on MSDN, just
hard to sort through them. I just bought Rocky Lhotka's book (haven't read
it yet).

 

[tperovic]

Check out this book:

Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects
by Rockford Lhotka