The Importance of ADO.NET
The world of applications has been evolving for some time. Originally, applications were centralized, and they were accessed via dumb terminals. All the code ran on the mainframe, and the information technology (IT) professionals controlled everything.
Along came the PC and everything changed. The computing power moved to the desktop, and people ran spreadsheets, databases, word processors, and the like. However, no PC can be an island for long. Soon, people were tying their PCs together with umbilical cords back to servers and, of course, those mainframes.
Given that PCs were often connected to servers, you saw the rise of client/server computing. Unlike the centralized approach of mainframe/dumb terminal applications, ...
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