Ado And Ado.net Differences. Briefly, asp.net is microsoft's framework for building websites and web services, while ado.net is a set of components for accessing and manipulating data, primarily targeted at relational databases. Ado.net depends on managed providers of the common language runtime (clr) of the.net framework.

The ado recordset was a huge object in ado. The ado.net object is a lightweight object. It has a limited number of data types which are defined by the com standard.