In Lesson 1, I introduced you to the Windows shell scripting language. You can use this scripting language to write scripts (i.e., .bat or .cmd files), such as those you wrote in Lesson 1. You can trace the .bat extension back to the batch...
Last spring, when I first heard that Microsoft was prepared to serve us a brand new data-access layer called ADO.NET (formerly known as ADO+), my first thought was, "It's always the same story: Redecorate the house at the end of the fiscal year...