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A weakly-typed dataset (collection) uses variables of type Object to hold it's values. It's bad because you can add a Customer object to the collection when you meant for it to hold Item objects. Most new programmers would say "I would never do that -- I would only put Customers in my Customer collection". An experienced programmer would say "It's possible for a maintenance programmer to come behind me and do it wrong, so I'll prevent this from happening if I can."
The way to prevent a mixup like this is to define strongly-typed collections. That way when you attempt to add an Item to a collection that should only have Customer objects, the compiler flags it as an error, and the mistake is caught before a customer ever sees it.
All applications beyond the proof-of-concept stage should be using strongly-typed collections.
Chip H.
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The way to prevent a mixup like this is to define strongly-typed collections. That way when you attempt to add an Item to a collection that should only have Customer objects, the compiler flags it as an error, and the mistake is caught before a customer ever sees it.
All applications beyond the proof-of-concept stage should be using strongly-typed collections.
Chip H.
If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ222-2244 first
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