Hi, what are the new features (if any) in ADO.Net 3.5 as compared to 2.0?
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I'm not aware of any major new features in straight ADO.NET itself. But the big new feature is LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities (about to come out with a major upgrade with .NET 4.0).
Dave Markle
2009-09-13 21:46:59
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According to this MSDN page ADO.NET 3.5 SP1 includes the following new "feature":
The .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server ( System.Data.SqlClient) provides full support for all the new features of the SQL Server 2008 Database Engine
Also, I think the entity framework was introduced with that version.
M4N
2009-09-13 21:53:15
so I would guess to say that you cannot use ADO.Net 2.0 framework with SQL 2008?
DotNetRookie
2009-09-13 22:19:24
You can use ADO.NET 2.0 with SQL 2008, but you cannot use some new features of SQL 2008. See this page for more information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb675218.aspx
M4N
2009-09-13 22:35:13
Thanks very much
DotNetRookie
2009-09-13 22:39:08