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