Microsoft Data Access Roadmap

Data access is an important part of any business application, and on Microsoft platforms there are many ways to access data.

MSDN has a recent article about the roadmap of the Microsoft data access technologies. It is good to know what will happen to for example ADO, and how ADO.NET will evolve.

The interesting thing for Delphi developers is that the SQL Server access library DB-Library is now considered obsolete. My assumption is that dbExpress uses this library, so I wonder what is the future of this API.

I'd say it would be best for Borland to drop all those "new" data access layers, and concentrate on ADO.NET.