Day 20. Performance and Interoperation

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It almost goes without saying that even if you learn every aspect of the ADO.NET object model and use your knowledge to develop reusable and maintainable code, users won't accept your application if it doesn't perform well. Further, there will be times when your ADO.NET code must interoperate with ADO ”for example when you need to call data access classes already in production written in VB 6.0.

As a result, today's short lesson will focus on getting the best performance possible out of your ADO.NET code and interoperating with ADO. To those ends, today you'll learn

• The top techniques you can use to increase performance of your ADO.NET applications

• How to read ADO Recordset data using a DataSet

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