A lot of things are still the same, with some new features and
enhancements to familiar features. Working with controls is different
than working with ADO.NET in code, mainly because there are new
controls and new ways of doing data binding.
Here's a link to what's new in ADO.NET, which should hopefully answer
your questions:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ex6y04yf.aspx
--Mary
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:13:48 -0600, "Brent" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:
>Ok please somone correct me if im wrong. I think a lot of the changes to the
>underlying structure to ado.net in version 2.0 are for controls. The new
>features make it much easier to bind controls to the database with almost no
>code at all. If your not binding data to the controls though you should use
>the old way to access the DB. For example, if you wanted to return a dataset
>as a web service. You will still use the old method of getting a connection
>object, data adapter, and a command object and use the fill method off of
>the datadapter? The reason im asking is because i have been reading a lot
>that the "old" way of data access is still supported as if you shouldn't
>code stuff to work with the new data access layer. Kind of how dts is still
>supported in sql server 2005 yet you shouldn't code stuff on an ongoing
>basis using dts.
>
>thanks,
>Brent
>
