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Sean
Sean

Reputation: 235

Return type from db methods

What return type should one return from a method that is getting rows from the database. Should you keep the data in a dataset / datatable, should you create a collection of objects representing the data, or should you return an interface such as IList or IEnumerable, etc?

I know the real answer is "it depends", but I am just curious as to best practices that others observe. Dataset / datatable seems the simplest, but returning an interface seems to be the way it should be done. How are you all doing it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 124

Answers (1)

Jeremy Frey
Jeremy Frey

Reputation: 2405

Typically a collection of objects exposed via IList<T> or IEnumerable<T>, but why do the work yourself?

Upvotes: 1

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