What is the Informix .NET Provider?
The Informix® .NET Provider is a .NET assembly that lets .NET applications access and manipulate data in Informix databases. It does this by implementing several interfaces in the Microsoft .NET Framework that are used to access data from a database.
Using the Informix
.NET Provider is more efficient than
accessing the Informix database through
either of these two methods:
- Using the Microsoft .NET Framework Data Provider for ODBC along with the HCL Informix ODBC Driver
- Using the Microsoft .NET Framework Data Provider for OLE DB along with the HCL Informix OLE DB Provider