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In the earlier builds of SQL Server 2005 you had to write your ADO.NET data access code slightly differently depending upon whether you were expecting the code to eventually run inside or outside of the database.
 
We had namespaces such as System.Data.SqlClient and System.Data.SqlServer and you used the right one in each place.
 
By the time of the latest Community Technical Preview the data access model has been "unified" in the sense that you work one way regardless.
 
This means that a bunch of my "Nugget" videos over here are now out of date in the way they go about a few things - should really get updated.
 
There's an excellent article over here on MSDN that talks about the unified programming model and what you can do with it;
 

Posted Tue, May 31 2005 6:12 AM by mtaulty