ADO.Net really really wants you to use connection pooling because it saves on overhead for everyone. It allos you to close the connection (less network bandwith) but quickly reconnect if need be (less ...

A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...

Using the right ADO.NET connector you can work with many web APIs as if they were data tables. This is easy and using a strongly typed TableAdapter it's reliable. Interacting with websites via the ...

Microsoft would like you to use ADO to access your data, but is it the right solution for you? Follow along with our step-by-step example to learn more about this technology and see what advantages ...

LINQ gives us a more sophisticated and powerful to querying data tables. Put this together with a strongly typed TableAdapter and it almost becomes too easy! In a recent article Accessing website data ...

Progress Software has released DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET 4.0, the most recent version of its suite of ADO.NET data providers that includes 100% managed code and eliminates the need for database ...