ADO.NET 2.0 Overview

I did a presentation to one of our customers today on ADO 2.0 as a step up from .NET 1.1 with a view to presenting Linq and .NET 3.5 sometime soon.

In addition to internal Microsoft engineering excellence presentations and material I leveraged, I have listed the public reference documents here:

What's New:

• First Look at ADO.NET 2.0
• What's New in ADO.NET 
• New DataSet Features in ADO.NET 2.0
• Feature matrix
• Strongly Typed DataSets in ASP.NET 2.0 Pages
• The Baker's Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for ADO.NET 2.0
• new dataset features
• Protecting Connection Information
• Wikipedia - ADO.Net
• Code Access Security and ADO.NET
• Building a DAL using Strongly Typed TableAdapters and DataTables in VS 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0
• Making TableAdapters Transactional

SQL Server Specific:

• Query Notifications in ADO.NET 2.0

Tools:

• sql server samples  - For Adventure works database

Next:

• Anonymous methods - the path to Linq
• ado entity framework
• Linq Sudoku Solver