What happened to SNAC tracing in beta2?

Since .NET 2.0 beta2 was released I’ve received a few inquiries about what happened to tracing SNAC (that’s SQL Native Client). Looking at the adonetdiag.mof file, the SQLNCLI.1 entry (that’s SNAC) was removed. I also got a solution/workaround from Glenn Johnson, who asked the question, then provided the answer faster than I could fly from [...]

A first demo of the combined data provider

When I did my first demonstration with the combined SqlClient and SqlServer provider in the April CTP version of SQL Server, I was a bit surprised. I wrote a simple stored procedure to run in the server, exactly the way I've always written it to run on the client (modulo sending results back to the [...]