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title: "What is Ado.NET?"  
description: "What is Ado.NET?"  
author: "Sumit Kesarwani"  
published: 2014-01-27  
updated: 2020-09-15  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1883/what-is-ado-dot-net  
category: "c#"  
tags: ["c#"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is Ado.NET?

ADO.NET is an object-oriented set of libraries that allows you to interact with data sources.

ADO.NET is a set of classes that expose data access services to the .NET programmer.

ADO.NET is also a part of the .NET Framework.

ADO.NET is used to handle data access.

ADO.NET is entirely based on XML.

## Answers

### Answer by Sumit Kesarwani

ADO.NET is an object-oriented set of libraries that allows you to interact with data sources.

ADO.NET is a set of classes that expose data access services to the .NET programmer.

ADO.NET is also a part of the .NET Framework.

ADO.NET is used to handle data access.

ADO.NET is entirely based on XML.


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