I was asked by interviewer that what are new features of ADO.NET 2.0?
I replied (A) SQLConnection (B) SQL Command (C) Data Adapter, dataset & data reader.
But he said, those features were already there in ADO.NET 1.1
let me know if any inputs.
Thanks!
see here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ex6y04yf(VS.80).aspx
The person was probably looking for Disconnected Classes
MSDN says these are the new features.
Well, "he" as in "he said" is right, but MS sure made them work better, faster, and with less coding effort in v2.0.
For one thing, DataReader could be loaded directly into a DataSet or DataTable, which simplified things a lot. To me the other biggies were the addition of asynchronous BeginExecuteXxxx() & EndExecuteXxxx() calls along with allowing more than one pending request on a connection, and direct support for reading data in a paged manner without having to write a stored procedure for each place you had a large data set that needed to be paged.