You can use any kind of custom object collection to pass the data to your
presentation layer. The problem you will run into is when you attempt to
bind the collection to controls. For that you will need a collection that
implements several standard interfaces (IEditable Object and others
depending on whether you need to do sorting and filtering in the UI
controls).
I use List<CustomObject> to pass the data to the presentation layer and I
then convert it to a BindingListView to bind it to controls. Take a look at
Brian Noyes book on Binding Data to Windows Forms 2.0 for more details on
that:
http://book.itzero.com/read/microsof...lev1sec12.html
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Hi,
DataSets are usually resource heavy. Instead of having to pass them
from my middle tier to my presentation layer I was wondering if anyone
has developed a custom collection object that is less resource heavy
and can be passed lightweight to the presentation layer.
Thanks,
NJ