Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

Persistence is one of the greatest challenges for building applications. There are many options for building persistence layers. Data Access Objects (DAO) is a popular design pattern for building the ...

FastObjects .Net brings object-oriented database technology to the .Net environment. Given that the majority of .Net database applications employ RDBMSes on their back end, you might wonder if it ...

Microsoft would like you to use ADO to access your data, but is it the right solution for you? Follow along with our step-by-step example to learn more about this technology and see what advantages ...

The Data Access Object (DAO) pattern provides an abstraction layer between the business logic tier (business object) and the persistent storage tier (data source). Business objects access data sources ...