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title: "What is ADO.NET?"  
description: "What is ADO.NET?"  
author: "yash Singh"  
published: 2010-12-07  
updated: 2010-12-14  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/120/what-is-ado-dot-net  
category: "ado.net"  
tags: ["ado.net"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is ADO.NET?

What is [ADO.NET](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/804/connection-pooling-in-ado-dot-net)?

## Replies

### Reply by Uttam Misra

Yash you can post conceptual question in Interview Section of MindStick.\
Thanks!\

### Reply by Pushpendra Singh

What is Ado.net\
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ADO.NET, an object oriented data access technology, is essentially a collection of classes used to communicate between an application and a database. ADO.NET provides consistent access to data sources such as Microsoft SQL Server. The ADO.NET classes are found in System.Data.dll.\
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DataProvider in Ado.net\
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The following are the supported DataProviders:\
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• Odbc Data Provider\
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• OleDb Data Provider\
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• Oracle Data Provider\
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• SqlServer Data Provider\
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Connection\
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The following are the supported Connection classes:\
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• OleDbConnection\
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• OdbcConnection\
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• OracleConnection\
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• SqlConnection\
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Command\
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The Command object is used to send the SQL Statements to the database. Commands are used to insert data, retrieve data and execute stored procedures in the database. The following are the methods of the Command class:\
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• ExecuteScalar\
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• ExecuteReader\
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• ExecuteNonQuery\
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• ExecuteXmlReader\
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