# Brilliant General Architecture post from Scott Hanselman

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[This post](http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CommentView.aspx?guid=a0a65e0c-5ef8-41e4-a566-1739b4428aa5) by [Scott Hanselman](http://www.hanselman.com/blog) is just a brilliant starting point for beginners in application architecture (in any language actually). In my experience a good basic structure can solve so many problems in an application - and in many cases is a 'freebie', i.e., it doesn't really add any more development time. He does make an interesting point about DataSets in the Business layer...which I'd tend to go along with in the most part - if however you start to get objects which almost exactly replicate the structure of your DataSet...the benefits can be non-obvious - but decoupling your layers by having no reference to underlying back-end stores is almost always a good thing (unless you're doing a DB admin app of course :-))