Question about Dot Net Driver terminology

B. Chernick

I recently became involved in an attempt to connect Asp.Net pages to an Oracle database. At the same time, I am involved in an MCAD study group. This may have lead to some confusion on my part. Please bear with me for a second.

In Chapter 5, Lesson 1 (Understanding ADO.Net) of 'Developing XML Web Services' the book appears to distinguish between conventional OLE DB and ODBC drivers, and the newer .Net Data providers.

What has me confused, when I am in Visual Studio (or other tools) and trying to setup a db connection is the list of available drivers. I see OLEDB drivers but nothing explicitly labeled as a .Net Data provider. (Or should I assume that every driver visible from Visual Studio is a .Net driver?) Could someone please shed some light on how Visual Studio handles this?

Jul 21 '05 #1

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Hi B,

Have a look in the newsgroup

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.adonet

Bill Vaughn and Bill Ryan (the last also active in this newsgroup) have
argued latly about that
(Both write there name as William)

Cor

I recently became involved in an attempt to connect Asp.Net pages to an Oracle database. At the same time, I am involved in an MCAD study group.
This may have lead to some confusion on my part. Please bear with me for a
second.
In Chapter 5, Lesson 1 (Understanding ADO.Net) of 'Developing XML Web Services' the book appears to distinguish between conventional OLE DB and
ODBC drivers, and the newer .Net Data providers.
What has me confused, when I am in Visual Studio (or other tools) and

trying to setup a db connection is the list of available drivers. I see
OLEDB drivers but nothing explicitly labeled as a .Net Data provider. (Or
should I assume that every driver visible from Visual Studio is a .Net
driver?) Could someone please shed some light on how Visual Studio handles
this?

Jul 21 '05 #2

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