What's Up with 2 Custom Collection Articles in MSDN ?

Dino Esposito's latest MSDN column is "DataSets vs. Collections" -- definitely a good read on this topic from one of the best in the business.  And if that weren't enough, Paul Ballard also has an MSDN article on "Give Your Everyday Custom Collections a Design-Time Makeover" -- another very good read with hard-to-find details on data-binding.

Note that neither of these articles push O/R Mappers, but they are just interesting discussions on using Custom Collections for your business objects.   And just in case it isn't enough to find two such articles from some of the best in the same issue of MSDN, what's going on with these posts that hint at something in the future?

 And back a few months ago, Karl Seguin had an online MSDN article on "On the Way to Mastering ASP.NET: Introducing Custom Entity Classes".  So maybe, just maybe, we're starting to see the first wave of something better than the simple ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET v2.0 coming out of Microsoft at some point in the future -- maybe.

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