ADO.Net has for long been one of the most popular data access frameworks. Connection pooling is a feature in ADO.Net that enables you to improve data access performance in your application.

Start an ASP.NET Web Application or WebSite file system project, add a new ADO.NET Entity Data Model item, select a database connection from Server Explorer with the Entity Data Model Wizard, choose ...

Connection Pooling and Connection Strings Creating an ADO.NET connection object takes very little time -- creating a connection at the database, however, is terrifically time consuming. Fortunately, ...

Support for Asynchronous Programming in ADO.Net and Entity Framework Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5 comes up with better support for asynchronous database operations.

The ADO.NET Entity Framework brings to life the Entity Relationship Model (ER Model) that many database developers have used, for 30 years, to capture and diagram conceptual models of data, prior to ...

Learn how to turn ADO.NET classes into tools for constructing software using C# in Mahesh Chand's book, A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in C#.

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