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My .NET 4 console application has to execute a SQL Server 2005 stored procedure to retrieve desired data set. Since I’ve been using some .NET1.1 or .NET2 technology with my legacy system for a long time and not familiar with new technology. I was wondering if there’s any new technology is recommended in this scenario? There are some terms like Entity Framework 4, LINQ, etc… making me confused. Hope the community can advise. Thanks.
EF, LINQ – these are good things but they are also a bit advanced. Crawl, walk, run, is my suggestion.
The classic approach will still work – create a SqlConnection class, create a SqlAdapter, set it’s command properties and execute it.
Next step would be to create a strongly typed data set and define your data adapaters within it – get familiar with how that works before moving on to EF (which builds on the concept).
Always good to learn the plumbing. 🙂