Thank you for clarifying. And if ADO.NET does not use neither ODBC no OLEDB, what is under the hood?
>Let's clear this up. The preferred way to connect to SQL Server from .Net is .Net. If you use ADO.Net or Entity Framework you don't use either ODBC or OLEDB. Yes, OLEDB is being deprecated, but you still won't use ODBC from .Net.
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>>The reason I was confused is somewhere recently I read (I believe here on UT) that Microsoft is deprecating the OleDb in place of ODBC when it comes to connecting to SQL Server. Of course, maybe I misread something.
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