1. VB.NET and C# to Microsoft Access using ADO.NET
by Steven Nicolaou
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
Microsoft Certified Professional SQL Server, Visual Basic Desktop Distributed
Introduction to ADO.NET
For those of you familiar with ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) in Visual Basic, you will be well aware of the concept of
the Connection, the Command and the Recordset. These are the primary classes that constitute ADO’s data
access technology. In the .NET framework, ADO has been through major reengineering and has been renamed
to ADO.NET to reflect its position as the underlying data framework for .NET. Here is a quick overview.
The new Object Model in ADO.NET
The Connection and Command are still there, but the Recordset has been replaced by the DataSet and we have
a new Object called a DataAdapter , which is a toolset that handl