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Is ADO dead?
When I go to Microsoft's web site all I find is ADO.NET information when
looking for ADO information. I'm sure there is still some ADO help out there, but you really have to dig - unless I'm missing something. Does anyone know if MS is planning to dump ADO? If so, is there such a thing as a free ADO.NET lite - perhaps already incorporated into the Office Suite that I don't know about? - I mean you don't need to buy --- as MS now calls it --- ADO classic, but as far as I can tell you do need to buy ADO.NET. <click Ah, the light just came on. Are we who use and depend upon ADO going to be left high and dry? Could someone "in the know" please give me your spin and either confirm my suspicions or alleviate my fears? Thanks much in advance. |
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Is ADO dead?
There's more good stuff on the internet than just Microsoft. I did a quick Google
for ADO, and found this: http://www.devguru.com/technologies/ado/home.asp There must be loads more similar resources. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ quartz wrote: When I go to Microsoft's web site all I find is ADO.NET information when looking for ADO information. I'm sure there is still some ADO help out there, but you really have to dig - unless I'm missing something. Does anyone know if MS is planning to dump ADO? If so, is there such a thing as a free ADO.NET lite - perhaps already incorporated into the Office Suite that I don't know about? - I mean you don't need to buy --- as MS now calls it --- ADO classic, but as far as I can tell you do need to buy ADO.NET. <click Ah, the light just came on. Are we who use and depend upon ADO going to be left high and dry? Could someone "in the know" please give me your spin and either confirm my suspicions or alleviate my fears? Thanks much in advance. |
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Is ADO dead?
Thanks Jon.
I'm just concerned that MS is going to soon drop "classic ADO"? "Jon Peltier" wrote: There's more good stuff on the internet than just Microsoft. I did a quick Google for ADO, and found this: http://www.devguru.com/technologies/ado/home.asp There must be loads more similar resources. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ quartz wrote: When I go to Microsoft's web site all I find is ADO.NET information when looking for ADO information. I'm sure there is still some ADO help out there, but you really have to dig - unless I'm missing something. Does anyone know if MS is planning to dump ADO? If so, is there such a thing as a free ADO.NET lite - perhaps already incorporated into the Office Suite that I don't know about? - I mean you don't need to buy --- as MS now calls it --- ADO classic, but as far as I can tell you do need to buy ADO.NET. <click Ah, the light just came on. Are we who use and depend upon ADO going to be left high and dry? Could someone "in the know" please give me your spin and either confirm my suspicions or alleviate my fears? Thanks much in advance. |
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Is ADO dead?
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... Thanks Jon. I'm just concerned that MS is going to soon drop "classic ADO"? While it's a pretty fair bet that Microsoft won't make any further enhancements to classic ADO, it's also very unlikely they'll stop supporting it any time soon. Doing so would break thousands of applications all over the world and prevent many/most of the users of those applications from upgrading to new versions of Windows, which is the last thing Microsoft wants to happen. This is a completely uninformed guess, but I'd bet classic ADO has a minimum of five more years left in it and possibly ten before Microsoft releases a version of Windows that won't run it. -- Rob Bovey, Excel MVP Application Professionals http://www.appspro.com/ * Take your Excel development skills to the next level. * Professional Excel Development http://www.appspro.com/Books/Books.htm |
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Is ADO dead?
Thanks again Rob. I hope you are right. I also hope that they at least offer
an alternative that is built-into the App like ADO is. Have a great day. "Rob Bovey" wrote: "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Jon. I'm just concerned that MS is going to soon drop "classic ADO"? While it's a pretty fair bet that Microsoft won't make any further enhancements to classic ADO, it's also very unlikely they'll stop supporting it any time soon. Doing so would break thousands of applications all over the world and prevent many/most of the users of those applications from upgrading to new versions of Windows, which is the last thing Microsoft wants to happen. This is a completely uninformed guess, but I'd bet classic ADO has a minimum of five more years left in it and possibly ten before Microsoft releases a version of Windows that won't run it. -- Rob Bovey, Excel MVP Application Professionals http://www.appspro.com/ * Take your Excel development skills to the next level. * Professional Excel Development http://www.appspro.com/Books/Books.htm |
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