Chapter 10. Exposing Data to .NET Applications
The ADO.NET framework is made of two distinct groups of constituent classes: the generic container classes and the data source-aware classes. The data source-aware classes are still part of the System.Data namespace but are tightly integrated with a specific data source. Although data source-aware classes provide general-purpose functionality, their implementation is based on the features of a particular data source. So ADO.NET command classes, for example, might have a different set of methods depending on whether they work against an OLE DB provider or Microsoft SQL Server.
The container group of ADO.NET classes are abstracted from the physical data source. Although they represent data tables, ...
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