Yes, ADO.NET is a more modern API since .NET is more modern than COM.

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"Carmen Sei" <fatwallet951@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> It seems to me today, everybody use ADO.net instead of ADO. is it
> true?
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> I cannot found much ebook book on ADO but ADO.net got tons?
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> why everyone use ADO.net now?
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>>Not exactly.
>>
>>ADO is COM, usable from, for instance, VB or other high-ish level languages that can use COM. Of
>>course, a low level language like C++ can also use ADO, assuming that lower level language can use
>>COM.
>>ADO in turn uses OLDEB, which is a lower level API.
>>
>>ADO.NET is indeed managed code (framework). Which you can use from any language that supports
>>managed code.