What's New in ADO.NET?
There's a whole lot to cover, but before getting into the obvious object model changes from ADO to ADO.NET, it would be good to talk about the general changes from the Visual Basic developer's standpoint.
Don't you hate it when you create a new project in VB6 and have to add a project reference to the Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects DLL? Luckily, this is no longer an issue when creating a new project (with the exception of the “Empty Project” and “Empty Web Project”). The classes in ADO.NET that are located in the System.Data.DLL Assembly, which is already included in every project type that you create in Visual Studio .NET. The namespace that you'll be getting familiar with throughout this chapter, as you might have guessed, ...
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