In this chapter, you examined a handful of new features of ADO.NET 2.0. It has many more enhancements; in fact, it has so
many that several books could probably be written on how best to exploit them, especially in concert with enhancements to
SQL Server itself. But the fundamentals of using VB .NET to access databases that you’ve learned in this book are still the
ones you most need to understand.
The ADO.NET architecture has expanded and now offers even more powerful and convenient ways to process database data, but
ADO.NET still comes down to connections, commands, and data providers that pass results to data readers either explicitly
or implicitly.
Well, that’s it. By now you should feel confident and competent in VB .NET database programming. You’re no longer just a beginner.
We hope you enjoyed our book and found it helpful in your work. Most of all, we hope you’ll have as much fun using VB .NET
and ADO.NET as we do for real-world programming!