Concept, capabilities and features ADO.NET.- It is data-access technology, primarily disconnected and designed to provide efficient, scalable data access. - The disconnected data is represented within a DataSet object. - A data provider is a set of classes that provide access to databases.
The main components of data provider are: - Connection - Command - DataReader - DataAdapter
Visual Studio .NET includes two data providers: - SQL Data Provider - OleDb Data Provider
Two additional data providers are included in Visual Studio .NET 2003: - ODBC Data Provider - Oracle Data Provider
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