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Microsoft® Visual C#® .NET 2003 Unleashed
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Microsoft® Visual C#® .NET 2003 Unleashed

by Kevin Hoffman, Lonny Kruger
December 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
21h 40m
English
Sams
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Working with the OLEDB Data Provider

This next section gives you a brief introduction to using the OLEDB data provider. One of the main goals of data providers is to provide a standardized, unified method of access to differing types of data. As a result, the way you use the OLEDB data provider is extremely similar to the way in which you use any other valid data provider for the .NET Framework. As a result, this section focuses mainly on the differences between the two providers, rather than how they are alike.

Overview of the OLEDB Data Provider

The OLEDB provider is a set of classes that provides a managed wrapper around an OLEDB data source. Unlike the SQL Server Data Provider, which only connects to a single type of server, the OLEDB provider ...

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