Time to finish up the series on simplifying data access using ADO.NET. We have simplified everything around ADO.NET except for actually retrieving the results. This is probably the most complicated part of ADO.NET given the need for cleaning up the reader, enumerating the results and reading the actual data. We can simplify all this logic… Continue reading Simplifying ADO.NET Data Access, Part 6
This is a continuation of the series on simplifying data access using ADO.NET. We have a little cleanup to do around parameters before finishing up the series. Generic Parameters In the last article we defined the DataParameter class to represent a (database agnostic) parameter and value. At the time we used object for the type… Continue reading Simplifying ADO.NET Data Access, Part 5
This is a continuation of a series on simplifying the use of ADO.NET. In the last article we added the ability to cleanly separate query definition from the underlying data provider. But we left out parameters which are generally critical (and specific) to ADO.NET providers. In this article we will add support for parameters and… Continue reading Simplifying ADO.NET Data Access, Part 4
In part 3 of this series on simplifying ADO.NET data access we will finally switch gears and start providing a cleaner approach. Under the hood we will continue to use ADO.NET but it will be wrapped in a provider-agnostic layer that doesn’t require any of the boilerplate code that we are used to seeing with… Continue reading Simplifying ADO.NET Data Access, Part 3
Part 2 of a series on simplifying ADO.NET code. In the previous article we talked about the basics of ADO.NET. There are times where ADO.NET is still the correct choice for data access. Unfortunately it was written back in the original days of .NET and hasn’t been updated with newer features like generics. In this… Continue reading Simplifying ADO.NET Data Access, Part 2