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Introduction To ADO

ADO.NET is a data access technology within the .NET Framework that allows applications to connect to various data sources and manage data in both connected and disconnected modes. It features a multilayered architecture and uses a generic set of objects for different data sources, enhancing interoperability and maintainability. Key benefits include improved performance and scalability by utilizing disconnected data architecture.

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Introduction To ADO

ADO.NET is a data access technology within the .NET Framework that allows applications to connect to various data sources and manage data in both connected and disconnected modes. It features a multilayered architecture and uses a generic set of objects for different data sources, enhancing interoperability and maintainability. Key benefits include improved performance and scalability by utilizing disconnected data architecture.

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Introduction to ADO.

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Last Updated : 14 Apr, 2023



The .NET Framework includes its own data access technology
i.e. ADO.NET. ADO.NET is the latest implementation of
Microsoft’s Universal Data Access strategy. ADO.NET consists of
managed classes that allows .NET applications to connect to data
sources such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Oracle,
XML, etc., execute commands and manage disconnected data..t
Microsoft ADO.NET is the latest improvement after ADO. Firstly,
ADO.NET was introduced in the 10th version of the .NET
framework, which helps in providing an extensive array of various
features to handle data in different modes, such as connected
mode and disconnected mode. In connected mode, we are
dealing with live data and in disconnected mode, data is provided
from the data store.
ADO.NET was primarily developed to address two ways to work
with data that we are getting from data sources. The two ways
are as follows :
1. The first is to do with the user’s need to access data once
and to iterate through a collection of data in a single
instance i.e caching the data in runtime memory.
2. The second way to work with data is in connected way
which is we do not cache data. And we always go to
database to retrieve it
Architecture of ADO.NET :
ADO.NET uses a multilayered architecture that revolves around a
few key concepts as –
 asConnection
 Command
 DataSet objects
The ADO.NET architecture is a little bit different from the ADO,
which can be shown from the following figure of the architecture
of ADO.NET.
Architecture of ADO.NET

One of the key differences between ADO and ADO.NET is how


they deal with the challenge of different data sources. In
ADO.NET, programmers always use a generic set of objects, no
matter what the underlying data source is. For example, if we
want to retrieve a record from an Oracle Database, we use the
same connection class that we use to tackle the same task with
SQL Server. This is not the case with ADO.NET, which uses a data
provider model and the DataSet.
Features of ADO.NET :
The following are the features of ADO.NET –
 Interoperability-
We know that XML documents are text-based formats. So,
one can edit and edit XML documents using standard text-
editing tools. ADO.NET uses XML in all data exchanges
and for internal representation of data.
 Maintainability –
ADO.NET is built around the idea of separation of data
logic and user interface. It means that we can create our
application in independent layers.
 Programmability (Typed Programming) –
It is a programming style in which user words are used to
construct statements or evaluate expressions. For
example: If we want to select the “Marks” column from
“Kawal” from the “Student” table, the following is the way
to do so:
DataSet.Student("Kawal").Marks;
 Performance –
It uses disconnected data architecture which is easy to
scale as it reduces the load on the database. Everything is
handled on the client-side, so it improves performance.
 Scalability –
It means meeting the needs of the growing number of
clients, which degrading performance. As it uses
disconnected data access, applications do not retain
database lock connections for a longer time. Thus, it
accommodates scalability by encouraging programmers
to conserve limited resources and allow users to access
data simultaneously.

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