Step 1: Configure development environment for ADO.NET development
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Download a .NET SQL driver
Our current code example uses ADO.NET of the .NET Framework, for Windows. The .NET Core is available for Linux and macOS (in addition to Windows).
ADO.NET, for Windows
Install Visual Studio Community, or a similar integrated development environment (IDE) for writing and compiling C# source code. Microsoft now provides Visual Studio Community for free.
.NET Core, for Linux-Ubuntu and macOS
Links to download .NET Core, for a variety of operating systems, are available at: