# Nice little point from a forum post on DbDataRecord and IDataRecord

<datetime class="hidden">2004-07-05T00:00</datetime>
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When replying to [this post](http://www.asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?tabindex=1&amp;PostID=530206) in the [ASP.NET forums](http://www.asp.net/forums/), Dave023 (I wish people would use their real names, we're not posting porn there or anything!) he mentioned using the System.Data.IDataRecord instead of the System.Data.Common.DbDataRecord I normally use when binding to list controls using IDataReaders (such as SqlDataReader for the most part). 
I happen to like this - mainly because System.Data is one of the default namespaces improted into a VS.NET ASP.NET code behind page and System.Data.Common isn't - so you don't have to remember to import another namespace. Another nice side effect of this is that it makes switching from DataSets with their DataRowView to SqlDataReaders a little more painless - since you don't have to modify the ASP.NET page template to import another namespace so you increase reusability whilst retaining the nice performance characteristics of 'explicit binding'.

Anyway Dave023 - thanks for that!