Sams Teach Yourself ADO.NET in 21 Days

Workshop

This workshop will help reinforce the concepts covered in today's lesson.

Quiz

1:	What limits ADO 2.x from being used in Web-based distributed applications?
A1:	Although ADO 2.x supports disconnected Recordset objects that can be moved between tiers in a distributed application, those tiers must be based on the COM/DCOM infrastructure. This is the case because DCOM doesn't work well through firewalls, COM is not platform independent, and the record set is not represented in an industry standard way using XML. These factors together make it difficult, if not impossible, to pass ADO record sets between organizations.
2:	What is the key technology upon which Microsoft is building its next generation of software?
A2:	XML. XML is the industry ...