ADO.NET is the primary relational data access model for Microsoft .NET-based applications. It may be used to access data sources for which there is a specific .NET Provider, or, via a .NET Bridge Provider, for which there is a specific OLE DB Provider, ODBC Driver, or JDBC Driver. ADO.NET is sometimes considered an evolution of ADO technology, but it is important to note that some major changes were made between the two.
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ADO.NET is the primary relational data access model for Microsoft .NET-based applications. It may be used to access data sources for which there is a specific .NET Provider or via a .NET Bridge Provider for which there is a specific OLE DB Provider ODBC Driver or JDBC Driver.
ado.net is disconneted ado. unlike ado u dont have to be connected always to reterive the data it is fast. all these things can be achieved using dataset dataadapter datareader etc
ADO.NET consists of classes that make up the DataSet (such as tables rows columns relations and so on) .NET Framework data providers and custom type definitions (such as SqlTypes for SQL Server).
ADO.NET is the primary relational data access model for Microsoft .NET-based applications. It may be used to access data sources for which there is a specific .NET Provider or via a .NET Bridge Provider for which there is a specific OLE DB Provider ODBC Driver or JDBC Driver. ADO.NET is sometimes considered an evolution of ADO technology but it is important to note that some major changes were made between the two.
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