Pulling Data from the Data layer

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Hi

Now I didn't want to get my other post on 3rd Party grids off topic but I encountered a dilemma when playing around with my grids.

I'm developing a web app at home (trying to get out from under tha man) and I thought I'd go through the cruel and unusual pain of creating a n-tier framework from scratch. How hard can it be right. right......ok you can all quit laughing now.

My question is. What method do people use to retrieve data to display in grid controls. For example at work we pull it out from the data layer in xml and on the presentation layer we use xslt to transform it into an html table.

Now I start looking at these grids and they obviously like to play with the .net datasources. Seems the ObjectDataSource fits nicely onto a n-tier architecture but I find DataSets to be a bit well, restrictive when massaging data on the datalayer if that makes sense.

So what do you use people? Datasets? Xml? Collections of business entities?

[exam]

What exactly are you trying create?