Marty,
You can use in VB.Net ADODB. However exactly as I write "use" it is not
really dotNet.
In dotNet are the equivalent of the ADODBconnection the ADONET connections,
normally SQLConnection and OleDbConnection while there is at least one more
for Oracle.
A kind of equivalent from the recordset is the datatable, which is mostly
used in a dataset which can hold more datatables.
The big difference between ADODB and ADONET is that ADODB is connected and
ADONET disconnected.
I hope this helps?
Cor.