ADO.NET BLOG

Here are my adventures on ADO.NET from the ASP.NET perspective

It isn't your father's ADO

ADO.NET retains the ADO name to give people that soft and warm feeling but it isn't ADO. There are similar objects - Connection, Command, but there is a helluva difference.

Keeping your Connection Settings private

For simple webapps, put your database connection string in your config.web xml file. If you introduce it into an .aspx page, when you have compile or runtime errors, ASP.NET will possibly show your username/password as the debug trace output of the failed page.