ADO.NET is the data access component of Microsoft’s new .NET Framework. Microsoft bills ADO.NET as “an evolutionary improvement” over previous versions of ADO, a claim that has been hotly debated since its announcement. It is certainly true that the ADO.NET object model bears very little relationship to earlier versions of ADO.
This book and practice files were tested primarily using Windows 2000 and Visual Studio .NET Professional; however, other editions of Visual Studio .NET, such as Visual Basic .NET Standard and Visual C# .NET Standard, should also work. download
