| Article: “What’s New in ADO.NET?” from Microsoft’s “.NET Developers Guide.” Lists the features in ADO.NET 2.0 including managed providers, server enumeration, asynchronous processing, multiple active result sets (MARS), bulk copy operations, new SQL server max data types, SQL server user-defined types, SQL server notifications, transactions with SQL server snapshot isolation, database mirroring in SQL Server 2005, provider statistics, change password in SQL Server 2005, batch processing, tracing, partial trust, connection pooling control, SQL Server XML data type support, Integration with System.Transactions and Promotable Transactions Optimization for SQL Server 2005, and disconnected classes. |