Learn how to turn ADO.NET classes into tools for constructing software using C# in Mahesh Chand's book, A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in C#. The majority of software developed for business relies ...

A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...

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For instance, the original .NET Framework included only a native ADO.NET driver for SQL Server. To use a database such as Oracle, developers had to go through an OLE DB interoperability layer, a ...