Connection Object in ADO.NET

The Connection Object

 
The Connection object is the first component of ADO.NET that you should be looking at. A connection sets a link between a data source and ADO.NET. A Connection object sits between a data source and a DataAdapter (via Command). You need to define a data provider and a data source when you create a connection. With these two, you can also specify the user ID and password depending on the type of data source. Figure 3-3 shows the relationship between a connection, a data source, and a data adapter.
 
ADO.NET Connection Object 
 
Figure 1: The relationship between connection, data adapter, and a data source
 
Connection can also be connected to a Command object to execute SQL queries, which can be used to retrieve, add, update, and delete data to a data source. Figure 2 shows the relationship between the Command and Connection objects.
 
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Figure 2: The relationship between the command object and the connection object
 
The Connection object also plays a useful role in creating a transaction. Transactions are stored in transaction objects, and transaction classes have all those nice features for dealing with transactions such as commit and rollback. Figure 3 shows the relationship between the connection object and the transaction.
 
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Figure 3: Creating a transaction from a connection object
 
Each data provider has a Connection class. Below Table shows the name of various connection classes for data providers.
 
Table: Data provider connection classes
 
DATA PROVIDER CONNECTION CLASS
OleDb OleDbConnection
Sql SqlConnection
ODBC OdbcConnection

Conclusion 

 
Hope this article would have helped you in understanding the ADO.NET Connection object. See my other articles on the website on ADO.NET. 


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