The advent of ASP back in late 1996 when ADO 1.0 was released represented a new way of dynamically retrieving data from a database. Though ADO was at its very infancy then, and was something of an offshoot of DAO and RDO, nevertheless it represented a new bold direction. Each subsequent version of the technology leads us one step closer to ADO 2.6, when development came to an end. At this point, emerging from the shadows came the most revolutionary framework to date - .NET, with it the very powerful and mature ADO.NET.
