Well DataReaders are very fast, this is one reason mojoPortal is fast.

I don't see a problem since we only reference System.Data in the business layer and the web, we never references a specific data layer like System.Data.SqlClient.

IDataReader is no more specific than DataTable, both are in System.Data. Yes you have to remember to close the reader but this is a worthwhile tradeoff for perfomance in my opinion.

I can see why from an OOP purist view you might rather have collections of objects but populating a collection of business objects is a lot of extra overhead when you are only going to databind it. I prefer to databind to the lightest weight fastest source.

Cheers,

Joe

Unless they have changed the license I don't think we can use it.

I had someone look at the license for the application blocks quite a while ago and unfortunately it is not a compatible open source license.


Joe