Summary

In this hour, you have seen some techniques for making use of your legacy ActiveX objects without converting them to managed .NET Framework objects. First we analyzed some possible rough spots you might see when upgrading from ADO to ADO.NET. Then you saw how to directly access legacy objects from within a Web form. In the next hour, you'll see how to use connection pooling with ADO.NET.

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