re: DataReaders--Using the right tool for the job

If I found a guy on my team passing a datareader to and from the presentation layer I would take him out to the woodshed for some intensive counseling. IMHO there is nothing better than a properly structured data access object or layer. But given the history of 6M VB programmers moving to .NET, I'm not surprised there are a few with problems. By the way, your own ADO.NET book suggested a solution with datareaders that was very nicley reasoned out.