UniDirect .NET

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

UniDirect .NET is based on ADO.NET technology. The main feature of UniDirect .NET is an access to multiple database servers at the same code. With UniDirect .NET it is possible to avoid writing conditional code for different providers or using ADO.NET interfaces directly. UniDirect .NET implements full support of design-time development and integration with IDE, which allows to reduce development time greatly.

The following list presents the main advantages of the UniDirect .NET Data Provider.

- Universal access to data of different databases

- Supports all major databases

- Supports most of the popular ADO.NET providers

- 100% managed code

- High performance

- Bundled data providers for Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL

- UniSQL for writing server-independent queries

- Provider-specific types infrastructure

- Fill DataSet with several CURSOR for Oracle Database

- Asynchronous execution support

- DataSet Wizard to leverage design-time setup

- Generate DataSet Wizard

- Support for Data Access Application Block in Enterprise Library

- ASP.NET data providers: Membership provider, Role provider, Session State provider, Profile provider

- Easy to deploy

- Base-Class-Based provider model

- .NET Compact Framework support

- Advanced connection pooling

- UniScript component to execute scripts

- Ability to retrieve metadata information

- Ability of monitoring query and stored procedures execution

- Advanced design-time editors

- Easy migration from SQL Server, OLE DB, ODBC and Oracle Data Providers with Migration Wizard

- Help integrated into Visual Studio .NET and Borland Delphi

- and many more