What is ADO.NET and what difference between it and SQL Server?
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ADO.NET is a .NET technology designed to make writing code against the database more easy.
It's not a database (SQL Server is a Database server), it's a tool used to access a database. ADO.NET last incarnation comes with "Entity Framework", an Object Relational Mapper (an other tool designed to make the developper life easier too)
Maupertuis
2010-10-12 08:53:08
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ADO.net is more like an API included in the .net library , to allow programmers to access relational (or sometimes non relational databases) through code. That is , it frees programmers from the necessity of interacting directly with the database. It is more like a wrapper for all the SQL actions you might do in the SQL server .
MIkhail
2010-10-12 08:55:41