The Benefits of ADO.NET
With evolution comes new, and often great things. Such is the case with the evolution of ADO into ADO.NET. The prime benefits can be broken down into five categories: Interoperability, Maintainability, Programmability, Performance, and Scalability.
Interoperability
As XML becomes more widely accepted, the benefits of the XML-based persistence and transmission of ADO.NET become more obvious. ADO.NET is designed to take advantage of the acceptance of XML. Because the work being done out-of-sight, out-of-mind is in XML, any component that can parse XML can use ADO.NET. Programming languages and lack of compatibility no longer stand in the way. With ADO.NET, a PERL component can pass an ADO.NET DataSet to a C# component, which ...
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