Re: Generic Data Access design problems

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From: Radostin Gerchev (gerchev)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 19:30:07 +0300

> This is simply because the different DataAdapters share a ton of
> implementation details. One basic job of the a DataAdapter is to take an
> IDataReader and shove it into a DataSet. The IDataReader implementations
> handles most of the provider-specific stuff, and so you only have to write
> this code once if you put it into the DbDataAdapter base class.

I agree with you, should've formulated my rant more precisely. Ok, let us
have a helper DbDataAdapter class but why not include some common properties
in the interface? Now I have to cast between IDbDataAdapter and
DbDataAdapter to get access to AcceptChangesDuringFill for example.

Best Regards
Radi