Introduction to ADO.NET
ADO.NET is the .NET platform's new database technology, and it builds on ADO (Active Data Objects). ADO.NET provides DataSet and DataTable objects that are optimized for moving disconnected sets of data across the Internet and intranets, including through firewalls. At the same time, ADO.NET includes the traditional Connection and Command objects, as well as an object called a DataReader (which resembles a forward-only, read-only ADO recordset, in case you're familiar with ADO). Together these objects provide the very best performance and throughput for retrieving data from a database.
In short, you'll learn about the following objects as you progress though this hour:
OleDBConnection Used to establish a connection to ...
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