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 Informix ODBC Driver
- Using the Microsoft .NET Framework Data Provider for OLE DB along with the Informix OLE DB Provider