Remote clients (web based, smart and non-smart)

Hi there

I've just read your articles titled 'All you need to know about ADO.NET' and wonder if you could answer a couple of questions for me...

1) If you have a distributed (web based) application with remote clients (smart clients, eg C#) and a central RDBMS, how does ADO.NET connect to the DB? In a traditional client/server situation you would use TCP/sockets where your client connects by specifying a host name/ip address and a service/port number - but what if the client was on the web? would you need some kind of backend like ASP.NET to interpret the request and use it's own, server-side, ADO.NET connection to the DB or could ADO.NET be used on the remote clients?

2) Can ADO.NET be used for data binding within IE (eg non-smart, browser based clients)?, if so how (via JavaScript or VBScript or some other method)? I have used data binding to XML datasources within IE successfully using HTML and Javascript.

Thanks very much
Tim Huffam