Comparing ADO and ADO.NET
Most people reading this book will have some level of familiarity with ADO. For those people, it is useful to provide a discussion comparing ADO.NET to the familiar ground of ADO. If you have not had ADO experience, this section might still provide you with meaningful information, or you can skip to the end of the chapter.
Much has been written, and much more will be written, about ADO.NET's disconnected methodology. ADO operated in a connected mode, although it did contain some support for disconnected recordsets. ADO provided a consistent set of objects to access relational and nonrelational data, allowing the developer great flexibility in using a consistent interface to a wide variety of data. However, the reliance ...
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