Quote Originally Posted by atharva View Post
Should I still be looking at ADO.NET instead of ADO?
Absolutely. The only good reason to use ADO in VB.NET is that you are upgrading an existing VB6 app using the wizard. Any new code that you write in VB.NET should use ADO.NET or something that uses ADO.NET under the hood, e.g. EF, never ADO.