... Using ADO. NET Databases With the advent of the .NET Framework, Microsoft decided to update its model for accessing databases, ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) , and created ADO. NET. ADO. NET contains ... the contents of these tables, by using the wizards provided with Visual Studio 2005. Create a data source 1. Using Visual Studio 2005, create a new project by using the Windows Application ... connection pooling mechanisms of ADO. NET, database connections can be reused by different applications, thereby reducing the need to continually connect to and disconnect from the database,...