What ADO.NET Teaches Us about Custom Objects

December 1, 2006

I have met very few developers or development teams who prefer ADO.NET objects to custom objects. Similarly, many are writing their own custom data access layers. This should convey a loud and clear message to Microsoft and other software vendors: ADO.NET is great, but developers prefer custom objects. So, why not give us more technologies that help us build software the way we actually build software?

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