ADO.NET 2.0: Smarter, Faster, Better

From: SQL Server Magazine | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: Vaughn, William | Copyright information

New feafures solve developers' problems

As the November 7 release of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 approaches, we're seeing a flood of courses, technical articles, and marketing pieces pour out of the content providers like so many cars trying to get out of town on a Friday evening. Much of this new content unabashedly extols the virtues of ADO.NET 2.0, the new version of ADO.NET, and the tools you can use to create applications that reference it. Many of the articles simply h...

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