There is the potential that switching to DataSets rather than business objects will add a significant overhead and adversely affect performance.
- "accessing data through the DataReader is a magnitude of 27-56 times faster than accessing data using the DataSet"
http://www.devx.com/vb2themax/Article/19887/1954?pf=true -
------------------------------------------------------------------- Strongly Typed DataSet Breakdown ------------------------------------------------------------------- 175.11% slower than SQL Data Reader 216.26% faster than LINQ to SQL 112.17% slower than LINQ to SQL Compiled -------------------------------------------------------------------
Performance benchmarks for LINQ vs. SqlDataReader, DataSet - LINQ Compiled Queries: Part 2 http://www.devtoolshed.com/node/12
