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Developers Guide
Download the Adapter Objects Developers' Guide. The contents of this Guide are designed to allow a developer to easily install, configure and use the wealth of functionality provided by the Adapter Objects product.
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What is ADO.NET?
ADO.NET is the standard method by which .NET developers are able to interact with databases.  It comprises a large suite of class definitions, which, collectively, provide a rich environment for database access and manipulation. 
Key Features

  • 100% implementation of the ADO.NET managed data provider model.  
     

  • Visual Studio integration components, such as creation wizards and XML schema generation. 
     

  • Support for optimistic locking and transaction boundaries.

 

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Adapter Objects

The Adapter Objects product provides a sophisticated implementation of the ADO.NET managed data provider model, along with Visual Studio integration components to assist the developer in using the data provider within the VS.NET IDE. 

The Adapter Objects architecture has been designed with both performance and flexibility in mind.  This, combined with an implementation that provides seamless integration with the .NET environment, provides a powerful tool for enabling mv developers to harness the full power of both their mv system and the .NET platform. 

Component Overview
In order to provide a comprehensive ADO.NET solution, Adapter Objects provides the following 2 groups of components: 

  • MultiValue database specific Implementations of the ADO.NET classes/interfaces

  • Visual Studio.NET addin components to aid developer productivity in the use of Adapter Objects

Visual Studio Integration

In order to ease the use of Adapter Objects within the Visual Studio IDE, Adapter Objects provides a range of VS.NET extensions which are used in various places within the IDE: 

  • mvDataAdapter creation wizard – invoked when an mvDataAdapter is dropped onto a form or when an existing mvDataAdapter is reconfigured.

  • DataSet schema generation – invoked when the Generate Typed DataSet option within the Properties window is clicked.

  • Customer property designers for a range of class properties.