"ADO.NET? Oh, that's old technology, right?" I often hear this from people who have just started learning .NET. Many people assume that because Entity Framework Core exists, ADO.NET is no longer used.

In July 2025, Microsoft will discontinue support for the Microsoft Connector for Oracle in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). This blog provides essential details to help customers prepare for ...

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Microsoft.Data.SqlClient is a fully-featured ADO.NET database provider for SQL Server. It supports a broad range of SQL Server features on both .NET Core and .NET Framework. However, it is also a ...

In this ASP.NET Core Tutorial you will learn to do CRUD operations in ADO.NET from the very beginning. This tutorial will help you to learn ADO.NET so that you can start doing database programming in ...

Take advantage of the DbContext in Entity Framework Core to connect to a database and perform CRUD operations using CLR objects Microsoft’s Entity Framework is an open-source object-relational mapper, ...

There's no doubt that Entity Framework with LINQ is great (I've certainly written enough articles about it). But Entity Framework comes at a cost. As Matthew Jones points out on his blog, using ...

How to use the InMemory provider in Entity Framework Core to test your methods without hitting the database or using fakes and mocks The InMemory database provider is an exciting feature in newer ...