An Overview of ADO.NET
In ADO.NET, components are categorized into one of two categories: data manipulation and access through direct communication to a database, and data manipulation and access against in-memory copies of data (generated from a variety of different sources). Data providers supply the direct communication pipeline; they function as a data manipulation layer that sits between your code and a specific underlying data source. The DataSet component is responsible for allowing in-memory representations of both data and data schema.
Data Manipulation with Data Providers
As we have said, a data provider implements a layer of technology between your code and a database. Data providers are actually supplied by the .NET Framework and ...
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