Creating DAL - using XSDs or alternatives?

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I'm in the first stages of creating a new application which I will be treating as enterprise because of the growth pattern which will come about with the app as well as a number of developers that will be on this app to maintain verbosity, structure, etc.

 

My question is about creating a data access layer. In the past I've used XSDs and I have absolutly loved the strongly typed data, it hasn't even provided me any problems, and I've recently started extending my DataTables with partial classes to get the other related tables, peices of data, etc. Very similar to the rails ORM and a lot of other .Net equivalents I have seen out there that have been influenced from the rails ORM.

 

I have not heard of a large set of people using XSDs for data access, etc. Is there a reason for this? Idealy I'd like to stick with what I have seen work well for me.

 

Are there issues with this approach? Suggested alternatives? I'd like to build it right - once.

 

Thanks!

 

 

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