If you have any exposure to web development, you might have heard of ASP.NET, which is a framework for web development. Similarly, if you have worked with databases before in .NET projects, you should have heard of or used ADO.NET. ADO.NET is a framework that's similar to ASP.NET, but instead of web development, this framework is used for database-related work. ActiveX Data Object (ADO) was an old technology created by Microsoft, but the evolution to ADO.NET has been extraordinary. ADO.NET contains classes and methods that can be used to easily establish a connection with a database management system such as SQL Server or Oracle. Not only that, it also provides methods and objects that help to execute commands in the database, such as select, insert, update, and delete.
We need a separate framework for database connection and activity because...
