Editing ADO.NET (section)

{{Short description|Data access software from Microsoft .NET Framework}}
{{More footnotes needed|date=March 2009}}
{{Infobox software
| developer              = [[Microsoft]]
| operating system       = [[Microsoft Windows]]
| genre                  = [[Software framework]]
| license                = [[Proprietary software]] ([[Base Class Library|BCL]] portion under [[MIT license]]; source code under [[Ms-RSL]])
| website                = {{URL|https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/data/adonet/}}
}}
'''ADO.NET''' is a [[data access]] technology from the [[Microsoft]] [[.NET Framework]] that provides communication between relational and non-relational systems through a common set of components.<ref name="ADO_overview">{{cite web|title=ADO.NET Overview|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adonet/ado-net-overview|website=docs.microsoft.com|publisher=Microsoft|access-date=4 September 2017|language=en-us}}</ref>
ADO.NET is a set of computer software components that programmers can use to access data and data services from a database. It is a part of the [[Base Class Library|base class library]] that is included with the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is commonly used by programmers to access and modify data stored in [[Relational DBMS|relational database systems]], though it can also access data in non-relational data sources. ADO.NET is  sometimes  considered an evolution of [[ActiveX Data Objects]] (ADO) technology, but was changed so extensively that it can be considered an entirely new product.