Data Based SDK

[Duane in Japan]

I am still semi New to the VB Studio thing, I have been watching tons of MS Videos on line, the latest is a 16 part ADO.NET 2.0 series. With VB Studio and SQL Server package, do you really need to spend the time on ADO.NET, wont the VB Studio complete package be good enough to do just about anything a beginner will need to do or build a website that uses a data base to collect new clients and give them access to some data from your site. Thanks in advance for any feedback and guidance.

[originSH]

VB Studio? You mean VB.Net in Visual Studio 2005? There is plenty of drag and drop data functionality in Visual Studio that means for smaller projects you don't have to get your hands dirty with the actual code. The data designers will make the ADO.Net and data binding code for you, but you really should understand what is happening in the background so you can deal with any problems and bugs that come up. Once you start moving on wards beyond simple projects then you begin needing to hand craft the data access to get the most functionality and performance you can.