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ADO.NET
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ADO.NET is a set of computer software components that programmers can use to access data and data services based on disconnected DataSets and XML. It is a part of the base class library that is included with the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is commonly used by programmers to access and modify data stored in relational database systems, though it can also access data in non-relational sources. ADO.NET is sometimes considered an evolution of ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) technology, but was changed so extensively that it can be considered an entirely new product.

ADO.NET
Operating system Microsoft Windows Type License Website Software framework MS-EULA, BCL under Microsoft Reference License ADO.NET Overview on MSDN (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/enus/library/aa286484.aspx)

Contents
1 Architecture 2 ADO.NET and Visual Studio 3 ADO.NET and O/R Mapping 3.1 LINQ to SQL 3.2 Entity Framework 4 See also 5 External links

Architecture
Main articles: ADO.NET consumer and ADO.NET data provider ADO.NET is conceptually divided into consumers and data providers. The consumers are the applications that need access to the data, and the providers are the software components that implement the interface and thereby provides the data to the consumer.

ADO.NET and Visual Studio

Functionality exists in the Visual Studio IDE to create specialized subclasses of the DataSet classes for a particular database schema, allowing convenient access to each field through strongly typed properties. This helps catch more programming errors at compile-time and makes the IDE's Intellisense feature more beneficial

ADO.NET and O/R Mapping

Main article: Object-relational mapping

LINQ to SQL
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Main article: LINQ to SQL

Entity Framework
Main article: ADO.NET Entity Framework The ADO.NET Entity Framework is a set of data-access APIs for the Microsoft .NET Framework, similar to the Java Persistence API, targeting the version of ADO.NET that ships with .NET Framework 4.0. ADO.NET Entity Framework is included with .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, released in April 2010. An Entity Framework Entity is an object which has a key representing the primary key of a logical datastore entity. A conceptual Entity Data Model (Entity-relationship model) is mapped to a datastore schema model. Using the Entity Data Model, the Entity Framework allows data to be treated as entities independently of their underlying datastore representations.

Entity SQL, a SQL-like language, serves for querying the Entity Data Model (instead of the underlying datastore). Similarly, LINQ extension LINQ to Entities provides typed querying on the Entity Data Model. Entity SQL and LINQ to Entities queries are converted internally into a Canonical Query Tree which is then converted into a query understandable to the underlying database.

This technology forms a part of .NET Framework 3.0 (having been part of the framework since version 1.0)

See also
Comparison of ADO and ADO.NET

External links
ADO.NET ADO.NET Overview on MSDN (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa286484.aspx) ADO.NET for the ADO Programmer (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973217.aspx) ADO.NET Connection Strings (http://www.devlist.com/ConnectionStringsPage.aspx) ADO.NET Team Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/) Incubation Projects Data Access Incubation Projects (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/data/bb419139.aspx) Jasper (http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2007/04/30/project-codename-jasper-announced-at-mix07.aspx), download (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=471BB3AC-B31A49CD-A567-F2E286715C8F&displaylang=en) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ADO.NET&oldid=549678652" Categories: Data management Databases .NET framework Microsoft application programming interfaces SQL data access ADO.NET Data Access technologies This page was last modified on 10 April 2013 at 13:30.
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