Among the many things that are changing with .NET is data access. Under the .NET Framework, data access is handled by a set of classes called ADO.NET which are essentially an augmentation of the existing ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). If you have been keeping up to date with developments in ADO, then ADO.NET will come as less of a shock than you might think. All the same, there are some big changes, both internally and on the surface. The most obvious internal change is that ADO.NET is entirely based on XML. Externally, the biggest surprise is that there is no Recordset object.
