ADO.NET is designed to help developers work efficiently with multi tier databases, across intranet or Internet scenarios.
The ADO.NET object model consists of two key components as follows:
Connected model (.NET Data Provider - a set of components including the Connection, Command, DataReader, and DataAdapter objects)
Disconnected model (DataSet).
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