The Two Managed Providers
ADO.NET, the successor to Microsoft's highly successful ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), offers two Managed Providers. These providers are similar in their object model, but are chosen at design-time based on the data provider being used. The SQL Managed Provider offers a direct link into Microsoft's SQL Server database application (version 7.0 or higher), while the OleDb Managed Provider is used for all other data providers. Following is a brief description of each of the Managed Providers. Throughout this chapter we will show you how the Managed Providers work, and specify when a particular object, property, method or event is unique to only one of the Managed Providers.
OleDb Managed Provider
The OleDb Managed Provider ...
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