I am sponsoring a contest to see if someone can come up with ADO.net code to insert records into a MS Access 2003 database faster than ADODB methods (MS ActiveX Data Object 2.x library). My experiece has shown that I can write records to Access at least 4 times faster using ADODB methods in a Visual Studio 2003/2005 project as compared to any ADO.net methods. I want to see if this is due to my ignorance or a problem with ADO.net and Access 2003 databases. From the link below, there is a test project available that has five methods of writing to an Access database, an ADODB method and 4 versions of ADO.net methods. The time to write 30,000 records is timed for each method. The code is written in VB.net. There is a $100 reward to the first person who can use ADO.net methods that beat the ADODB methods working within the confines of the rules. Note there is only one reward. Please see the following link for full details. http://www.kelbli.net/kb1/AdoNetContest.html Thanks Brian
