Re: Support Timeframes for ADO

Here is the question:

I would like to know when Microsoft intends to stop mainstream and
extended
support of ADO 2.x (the ODBC version....

What ODBC version?
ADO is based on OLE DB, COM technology, not ODBC. There is no reason
providers have be piggy-backed on top of ODBC drivers, they could be native
OLE DB providers.

..., not the ADO.NET) along with when ADO 2.0 will be taken off the market
entirely.

Why should it be?
That would suggest that the only development going on is for .NET.
There are plenty of developers developing straight Win32 applications. ADO
2.8 addresses that market.

Given time, I think Microsoft will get bored weith .NET and declare it
legacy technology.
To me, it is a political product designed to kill Java.
There is no reason at all that all new projects have to be designed as a
..NET product.

There has been a lot of hoohah as to whether managed code will run
slower/faster than unmanaged code and the jury is still out on that.
What the jury is not out on is all the features of Longhorn that have been
remodelled because managed code has proved slower.

Stephen Howe


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