Entity Framework is considered the way to go now, but some devs use NHibernate instead. I suggest you look at Code First Entity Framework rather than Model First since the database is already defined.

>Hi,
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>For years I have been using my ASP.NET application with VFP database (using OleDb driver and OleDbDataAdapter). I have not even looked an ASP.NET book in several years.
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>Now I need to change the code to get the data from SQL Server. The book on ASP.NET I am using was published in 2002. And the example code in the book uses SqlDataAdapter. Is this still the best practice of accessing SQL Server data from an ASP.NET application?
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>TIA.