Do I really need to use " Microsoft .NET application blocks"

By using Microsoft .NET application blocks, do I gain performance in my application?

Or what are the basic advantages of using Microsoft Application blocks.

thank you

I'm curious. Has the famous M$ come up with a new way to take our money?

Application Blocks are more a way to speed development and help us use good programming practices. They are generally shortcuts to do common things and should cut down on repeatitve code. They may in some instances give better performance but the most benefits is speeding up development.

so I can't use application blocks then.

am I correct?

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Originally posted by Danny J
I'm curious. Has the famous M$ come up with a new way to take our money?

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The .NET Application blocks are free and comes with the source if I'm not mistaken.

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Originally posted by bnathvbdotnet
so I can't use application blocks then.

am I correct?

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Did you read what Edneeis wrote? You can use them, anyone can use them because of the benifits Edneeis provided.

All the application blocks ARE FREE. I have used the Data Access one and love it. You can go ahead and role your own code to do what it does, but why? If you are smart, and the Data Access block does what you are going to do anyway, you would use it. You can modify it because the whole source code is available. There is nothing mysterious about it.

It will probably speed up performance also. The Data Access block does parameter caching for you. If you were to write your own app, I would bet you wouldn't include this feature.