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In the last 3 years, and despite the remarkable message count, I cannot remember his ever providing a technical answer in UT- apart from some trivial "proofs" that ADO was definitely, definitely the best way to access data. Obviously this was before MS admitted the deficiencies in ADO when ADO.NET became available to replace it.
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No question that ADO .NET is better in many ways than ADO. While I have advocated the use of ADO - I don't know if I said it is the absolute BEST way to go. I believe I paid a good amount of attention to SPT - since you can render a VFP cursor right away. Dataclass/VFP uses both ADO and SPT.

Finally, any deficits ADO might have do not come close to the deficits RV's have. As for your trival proofs - I'll leave you with your "wiki". At least there - if somebody does post something that effectively counters certain positions - they can be quashed right away...