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Microsoft answers some data related questions…

These were the questions that was nagging many developers, for example future of LINQ2Sql, now that we have Entity Framework (I have heard people talking about the difference in usage scenarios), Where did ADO.Net data services go? etc…. I found this very useful page answering these questions, here is the link -> go Added on 07/28/10 – Check out this article, talks about the past, present and future of data development technologies from Microsoft -> …

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How to share transaction between classic ADO and ADO.Net

Level: Advanced If you want to share a transaction between your ADO connection and your ADO.net connection, you can use bound connections. Now you might ask why would you ever want to do that, I was faced with a scenario where i was calling my .net modules from my existing VB code using COM interop. (I am planning to discuss COM Interop sometime soon!). So in my case VB/ADO was starting a transaction, then it …

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