I use strongly-typed datasets. I like the intellisense and it IsXXXNull methods. And I bind them to data grids. Everything is good.

When acting on a datagrid in ItemCreated or ItemCommand, it is common to access the underlying data. This is acheived via e.Item.DataItem. When a grid is bound to a DataSet or DataTable, this property returns a DataRowView. My lovely, strongly-typed object is gone. :(

I needed to build a page that displayed hierarchical data. So, instead of binding my grid to a DataTable, I was binding to a GetChildRows method, which is a DataRow(). My strongly-typed DataRow is back!!!

To get the strongly-type datarow without a relation, bind to dataSet.dataTable.Rows.