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Steve Naidamast3-Apr-18 6:36
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I understand your desire for strongly typed data upon the return of your queries. I prefer the same myself so what I do is after I have retrieved my data using a data access layer, I load the items into a structure object in the business-logic tier, which has all of the fields defined that I require and then return an array-list of such objects to my front-end.

I have been doing this for many years and have never had a problem with the technique.

Using an ORM is fine if it is actually needed such as for example, a new application that will require access to a very large, existing database. In this case you may want to opt for an ORM to get the structures of your data more quickly accessible to you.

However, ORMs tend to be on the "heavy" side in terms of tiers, making them somewhat inefficient.

In addition, using any ORM forces one to learn the idiosyncrasies of that ORM as well as the interface language. In EF's case, that would be LINQ, though you can also use EF-SQL. The result is that you become fluent in a single ORM instead of the more general language of standard SQL.

It is of course a matter of personal preference but I am one who does not like to stray too far from the basics since most of the many tools today are always in a state of flux, which can cause more problems than they are worth at times.

Just saying... Smile | :)
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com

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