The BCL includes a set of classes that access data sources and manage complex data sets. Known as ADO .NET, these classes are the managed replacement for ADO under Win32. ADO+ supports both connected and disconnected operations, multiple data providers (including nonrelational data sources), and serialization to and from XML.
For more information, see the following namespaces:
System.Data System.Data.ADO System.Data.ADO.InteropSystem.Data.CodeGen
System.Data.Design
System.Data.Internal System.Data.SQL System.Data.SQLTypes
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