No, you did not waste your money. Most of what we do as developers is maintenace...which means apps that were written using ADO.NET. It will also give you insight into why things are much better and easier with something like NHibernate or Entity Framework.



>Are you saying that Linq2SQL is already old stuff, or did I miss the point? So, did I waste my money when I just ordered Murach's ADO.NET 3.5 with C# 2008 book?
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>I do have Visual Studio RC1 installed on both my laptop and my desktop, so that is ready to go. That was a long installation, by the way.
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>Cecil