ADOX vs ADO.NET

[Mitchell Vincent]

I'm brand new to .NET (and Visual Studio) so forgive me for asking some
simple questions..

What exactly is the difference between ADOX (ADO Extensions?) and ADO.NET ?

If I am starting from scratch is there any reason I should fool with
anything but ADO.NET?

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- Mitchell Vincent
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[Bernie Yaeger]

Hi Mitch,

ADOX is used primarily for schema information in vb. ADO .Net is the object
model for access to the back end data source, and essentially replaces both
ado and adox. I find that when I need schema type information, I get it
inside sql itself, using the information_schema extensions available through
t-sql. So, at least for my purposes (and I access data always), no, ADOX is
not necessary in the net framework; ado .net is all I ever use.

HTH,

Bernie Yaeger

"Mitchell Vincent" <mi**************@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I'm brand new to .NET (and Visual Studio) so forgive me for asking some
simple questions..

What exactly is the difference between ADOX (ADO Extensions?) and ADO.NET
?

If I am starting from scratch is there any reason I should fool with
anything but ADO.NET?

--
- Mitchell Vincent
- kBilling - An easy and affordable billing solution
- http://www.k-billing.com

[Cor Ligthert]

Mitchell.

The only thing I have seen till now where it is needed to use AdoDb is to
create a new Access database. As well the pesimistic concurrency is hard to
do in ADONET, when that is needed I do not know what will be my choise.

Just my thought,

Cor