High-performance ADO.NET Data Providers

dotConnect is an enhanced data connectivity solution built over ADO.NET architecture and a development framework with a number of innovative technologies. dotConnect includes high-performance data providers for the major databases and popular cloud applications and offers a complete solution for developing data-related applications and web sites. dotConnect can be used in all areas of modern application development: web applications and services, Windows Forms applications, mobile applications, and even enterprise-grade solutions.

Database Connectivity

Oracle

dotConnect providers for the major databases have a long and successful history of development. With support for state-of-the-art ORM solutions such as Entity Framework and LinqConnect, and support for lots of the database-specific types, features, and optimizations, dotConnect product line introduces new approaches for designing applications and boosts the productivity of database application development.

Cloud Data Connectivity

With the standard ADO.NET and Entity Framework interfaces and advanced design-time, dotConnect providers for cloud applications offer the fastest way to create .NET applications, working with cloud data. You can define your connection in a design-time wizard, bind data-display controls with dotConnect components, and configure all the data access visually in few minutes.

Local SQL Engine

dotConnect providers for cloud data sources have a local SQL engine that allows you to select data with standard SQL SELECT statements and modify data with INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements. They allow you to work with cloud data via SQL, just like with database data, instead of learning a complex web API.

dotConnect Universal offers universal access to data of different databases for the Microsoft .NET Framework. It supports most of major database servers, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, InterBase, Microsoft Access, and Firebird. Other servers can be accessed through their ADO.NET, OLE DB and ODBC providers.

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Highlights

Advanced Visual Studio Integration

dotConnect providers tightly integrate with the design-time features of Visual Studio. You can use them to create Server Explorer connections and browse data source tables, take advantage of DataSet Designer, Data Source wizard, Query Builder, TableAdapter configuration, use Preview Data capability, etc.

RAD Approach

dotConnect providers make application development faster because they allow to quickly configure the data access layer at design-time. They offer a number of visual GUI tools and wizards that increase your productivity. dotConnect components have advanced visual component editors to simplify their tweaking.

SQL Execution Monitoring

dotConnect providers have a dedicated free tool for monitoring SQL execution and other data access events - dbMonitor. dbMonitor can be used for monitoring any kind of applications - desktop, ASP.NET and windows services and even allows tracing the applications remotely.

Demo Projects

dotConnect providers go with a number of demo project, illustrating the use of different technologies and classes with dotConnect and how to use dotConnect providers in different kinds of projects. They will quickly introduce you to using dotConnect components in your data-related applications.

Helpful Documentation

Documentation for dotConnect providers can help you get started with them quickly. It is integrated with Visual Studio help collection when a provider is installed and is available separately both as a downloadable CHM file and online on our website.

Fast Support

If you have any questions on our providers, you can contact our support team, and we will answer all of your questions. We have a two-business-day response policy, but usually you will get a reply much faster. We provide support by e-mail or on our forum.

Free Updates for 1 Year

When you purchase any of dotConnect providers, you get an annual subscription for free, and can freely download all the product updates for 1 year since the purchase.

Royalty Free

dotConnect providers are royalty-free - if you have a license, you won't need to pay any additional fee for deploying or distributing your software to end users.

High-performance ADO.NET Data Providers

Database Connectivity