No New Object Model?!?

Visual Studio 2005 breaks new ground for Microsoft in that it is the first major release of Visual Studio that does not introduce a new data access object model. (Visual Studio 2003 doesn’t count because it contained only minor enhancements to Visual Studio 2002.) Developers who have honed their ADO.NET skills using versions 1.0 and 1.1 of the .NET Framework can continue to enhance those skills in version 2.0 of the .NET Framework.

Many developers who are new to the .NET Framework may have had experience with Microsoft’s previous data access technology—Active Data Object (ADO). ADO served many developers well, but it lacks key features that developers need to build more powerful applications. For example, more and more developers ...

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