Yesterdays .NET User group meeting was again full of new stuff. Vikas Gupta, a Senior Software person from Virtusa did a Very Informative (good to see all the code samples) presentation on ADO.NET 2.0. Microsoft has really addressed some performance as well as general usability issues in ADO.NET 2.0. Factory classes, Improved Transaction scope over multiserver transactions and also the bit of code he showed on how to encrypt and decrypt the web.config file was really interesting. Also the added features for DataTable level communication with XML files, (with ADO.NET 1.0 we worked with DataSets to read and write to XML) really speaks good on performance.
There were many more…………… But above is just a glimpse of it.
Also the second quick presentation By Meril Fernando (He’s now a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft) on Microsoft Express Editions were as usuall…………Interesting.
A good crowd was present and its good to see so many enthusiasts.