TableAdapter, BindingSource, etc? Should I?

[johnb41]

I'm trying to migrate from VS2003 to VS2005. And in the process, there
are lots of new things to learn.

I am unsure whether to use the "new" way of doing things, or stick with
the classic way.

For example, i've been reading and watching tutorials on data access.
New objects like TableAdapter, BindingSource, BindingNavigator, etc are
introduced. And they work quite differently from what i'm used to. We
used to need a connection object, an oledbdataadapter object, a dataset
object, etc. Now it's all different, and i'm very confused.

Should I stick w/ the classic data access techniques, or should I try
to migrate to the new way?

Thanks,
John

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

John,

Most things are the same under the hood, although that in the strongly typed
dataset (which is completely recreated) names are now at least descripting
and not anymore as dataset11 dataset1.

A lot of things have improvements. By instance the DataGridView has much
more possibilities while the dataview has that as well. However the
documentation on MSDN is in my opinion not yet what it should be. And that
is an understatement.

I hope this gives an idea.

Cor