what is the advantage of using arraylist as datasourse instead of data tables in vb.net

what is the advantage of using arraylist as datasourse instead of data
tables in vb.net

what is the advantage of using arraylist as datasourse instead of data
tables in vb.net
In my reference code , data from datatable stored to an arraylist and used
as data source for a form control. what is the advantage of copying data
from table to arraylist .