ADO.NET specs have not been changed in respect to ASP.NET. The recommendation is to use EF, but it's not required,

>pure speculation: the ADO.Net specs to me seem to have been devised for ASP.Net server side minimal retrieval. Reusing the memory only (unless you count swap disk) stack client side was stooopid.
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>>It took a Lianja user about 10 minutes to integrate KendoUI from Telerik into Lianja. Well, he didn't do real data binding yet, but Lianja natively does oData Queries returning oData strings, so the binding isn't going to be all that difficult. MS could have done this. With 1/100th the resources (or less) of what they put into .Net.
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>Did you see my question about current state of Lianja a few weeks back?
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>>When the OS team rejected .Net (and thereby trashed the promise that .Net would be securely integrated with the OS), the jig was up. That was back in about 2002, I believe.
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>Feels later to me, but I did not follow MS/.Net closely.
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>regadrs
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>thomas