Is ADO dead?

[quartz]

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.

 

[Jon Peltier]

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.

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[quartz]

Thanks Jon.

I'm just concerned that MS is going to soon drop "classic ADO"?

 

[Rob Bovey]

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.

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[quartz]

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.