Day 10. Accessing Data with ADO.NET
Most of the applications that you write must access some sort of data store. Today, you learn about data access in .NET. ActiveX Data Objects .NET (ADO.NET) is the technology used in the .NET Framework for all database access. Before .NET, the main technology for data access was ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). ADO was great, but it had its drawbacks. But when there's only one way to do something, as with ADO and accessing data, it's easy to forget about the drawbacks and just work with what you have. Microsoft set out to fix all of these drawbacks in ADO.NET, which was written from the ground up specifically for data access in .NET and the challenges that developers face in the disconnected environment of the ...
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