Microsoft® Visual C#® .NET 2003 Kick Start

Using Connection, Command, and Data Adapter Objects

Each of these objects come in four types, each in their own namespaces, depending on the data provider you're using:

• For OLE DB data providers, you use OleDbConnection, OleDbCommand, and OleDbDataAdapter objects from the System.Data.OleDb namespace.

• For SQL Server, you use SqlConnection, SqlCommand, and SqlDataAdapter objects from the System.Data.SqlClient namespace.

• For ODBC data providers, you use OdbcConnection, OdbcCommand, and OdbcDataAdapter objects from the System.Data.Odbc namespace.

• For Oracle, you use OracleConnection, OracleCommand, and OracleDataAdapter objects from the System.Data.OracleClient namespace.

We'll see how this works by taking a look at the various data objects we need—connection ...