Chapter 2. What Is ADO.NET?
IN THIS CHAPTER
In the beginning, there was Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). Okay, that was a long way from the beginning, but ADO has been around a few years—a lifetime in Internet terms. As with all things, ADO came to us through a normal evolutionary process, based on Data Access Objects (DAO) and Remote Data Objects (RDO). Following in this evolutionary model, Microsoft created ADO.NET.
This chapter provides a high-level look at the ADO.NET object model. You'll learn about the following:
What ADO.NET is
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