I had been passing username/password strings directly into the ADO.NET connection string, however this means that if a user has a quote character in his password, it borks the ConnectionString and ...

ADO.Net has for long been one of the most popular data access frameworks. Connection pooling is a feature in ADO.Net that enables you to improve data access performance in your application.

Creating an ADO.NET connection object takes very little time -- creating a connection at the database, however, is terrifically time consuming. Fortunately, .NET, Windows and your database engine will ...

Note that prior to .Net Framework 4.5 you have had to specify “Asynchronous Processing=true” in your connection string to leverage asynchronous ADO.Net calls.

ADO.NET Data Services and ADO.NET Entity Data Model templates make creating simple services easy and quick. Start an ASP.NET Web Application or WebSite file system project, add a new ADO.NET Entity ...