Persistence is one of the greatest challenges for building applications. There are many options for building persistence layers. Data Access Objects (DAO) is a popular design pattern for building the ...

In today’s digital environment, managing data access is a central element of any organization’s information strategy. As the ...

ADO.NET, for example, won't give you objects (or, at best, will only give you a pseudo object like a DataTable). EF will, when joining tables, do clever things when creating objects when working with ...

ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) is Microsoft’s premier data access technology. ADO and its partner, OLE DB, represent Microsoft’s recommended solution for all data access.

Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

And, as long as I'm here, class modules are for creating your own programatic (code-only, no UI) objects -- the ADO data access objects are an example of that kind of object.