ADO.NET 2.0 and Whidbey

Since many folks have a copy of Whidbey (either the PDC or the Community Technology Preview March 2004) version I thought I'd post a list of items that you may have thought were in ADO.NET v2.0 but are not:

Server-side cursors i.e. the SqlResultset class

Asynchronous connection objects (although asynchronous commands are still in)

Provider-specific table objects i.e. the SqlDataTable that I blogged about previously

Data Paging i.e. the ExecutePageReader methods of the command objects

ObjectSpaces, not exactly cut and will make a reappearance after Whidbey ships

I'll be talking about what's left on Saturday June 5th, 3:10-4:20PM and June 6th, 11:10-12:20PM at the DevEssentials conference in Kansas City. Still lots of cool features to be sure. Right now I am planning on covering:

ObjectSpaces

Provider Factories

SQL Bulk Copy

Asynchronous Commands

DataSet Changes

Batch Updates

Performance Improvements

MARS

Query Notifications

Yukon UDTs

Snapshot Isolation