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We are pleased to announce the release of Excel Add-ins 3.0, a major update to our Excel Add-ins for databases and cloud applications. The new version adds support for Microsoft Excel 2024 across all products. It also includes new database versions, expanded object and report support, improved data type handling, and enhanced connection security.

Selecting an ADO.NET provider may seem like a simple, one-time decision, but it can affect performance, compatibility, and long-term maintainability for years. The provider sits between your application and SQL Server and affects everything from connection management and authentication to support for new database features. Also, today, SQL Server 2025 delivers new cloud-optimized features and modern security and System.Data.SqlClient has become legacy software.

We are excited to announce major updates across our dotConnect Providers product line and Entity Developer. The release introduces expanded API support, new business objects and reports, improved authentication capabilities, and broader compatibility with modern.NET platforms. Our dotConnect product line continues to evolve with the latest technology changes.

In 2026, choosing the best PostgreSQL ADO.NET providers, or the right PostgreSQL.NET driver, comes down to the details. You need to know how they perform under load, how well they fit your stack, and what happens when things break. This guide compares the leading provider options side by side to help you identify the right fit for your environment. By evaluating these PostgreSQL ADO.NET providers, you can avoid pitfalls early, saving evaluation time and preventing costly fixes later.

Modern.NET applications depend on stable ADO.NET providers to connect their logic with MySQL databases. But developers often run into familiar issues, async performance that’s unreliable, providers that differ in maturity, licensing that’s unclear, or integration friction with EF Core or cloud pipelines. In this guide, you’ll get a clear, architecture-based comparison of the top ADO.NET providers for MySQL.

Behind every modern.NET application is an ADO.NET provider handling database connections, queries, and ORM operations behind the scenes. As applications become more cloud-native and data-intensive, that provider layer has become far more important than many teams realize. Performance, scalability, deployment reliability, and even developer workflow can all depend on the quality of the provider underneath the application.

We are excited to announce the release of the brand new line of MCP Servers (Model Context Protocol), designed to connect AI assistants, AI agents, and large language models directly to enterprise databases and cloud business platforms. The release includes 19 specialized MCP Servers and the flagship Universal MCP Server, which enables AI access to virtually any data source through the ODBC standard.

The best ADO.NET tools for SQLite should preserve the speed that makes SQLite worth using in the first place. Recent benchmarks show it completing 100,000 sequential reads in 272 milliseconds, nearly 5x faster than MySQL on the same hardware, because there’s zero network overhead between your app and the database. A slow or poorly matched provider wipes out that advantage. Queries drag, operations behave unpredictably under concurrency, and simple data access turns into a scaling problem.