Re: Delphi 8 and ado.net

From: Lauchlan M (LMackinnon_at_NOSPAMHotmail.com)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:50:08 +1000

> > Do NOT try to use it as you'd use data aware stuff in Delphi. It's a
> > very different world and you have to change perspective to fully
> > appreciate it or use it as it's meant to be used.
>
> So true and you have said it very well. It seems to me that traditional
> Delphi users will likely have lots of preconceived ideas about how it
> *should* work and little inclination to spend the considerable amount of
> time and effort to learn how it *actually* works. The result will be a
vast
> amount of frustration and noisy grumbling.

Well, how then does it actually work IYO, and why is it so very different to
using say ADO in Delphi? Apart from datasets potentially having many
different result sets / tables in them, and a more extensive use of data
readers, I have found it much the same as Delphi. You still have a
connection, you use a data adapter to populate a dataset (ok this is
slightly different than just using a table or dataset component) and you
bind it (hook it up) to your grid or whatever. It's not very different. I
must be missing some big philosophical point, so if you could fill me in
that would be great!

Thx,

Lauchlan M

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