The ObjectDataSource control that ships with ASP.NET 2.0 helps us to work with our bussines façade, domain objects and/or data access layer directly avoiding a lot of boilerplate code that was needed before. However, the ObjectDataSource is very strict in the way that it communicates with our objects so we may have to adapt how we design our classes if we want to make use of it. Some times, we want to modify certain aspects of the ObjectDataSource control to fit our needs instead of having to change how we design our system. However, the ObjectDataSource does not provide any kind of extensibility. Also, there are some behaviours of the ObjectDataSource control that are not very popular, as the SelectCountMethod for paging or the poor filtering support, the big problems it has if we are not using a culture “compatible” with the invariant culture, and also the lack of control to use a custom instance of the DataObjectTypeName type in the update operation.
Posted At: 11/13/2008
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