RSSBus ADO.NET Provider for Amazon SimpleDB

The RSSBus ADO.NET Provider for Amazon SimpleDB allows developers to build .NET applications using the familiar ADO.NET interfaces. The RSSBus ADO.NET Provider for Amazon SimpleDB abstracts the underlying data source into tables, views, and stored procedures that can be used to both retrieve and update data.

The Getting Started section explains how the RSSBus ADO.NET Provider for Amazon SimpleDB integrates with Visual Studio. It covers connecting to a live data source and interacting with data through the Server Explorer.

The Using ADO.NET section shows some common programming idioms which will give you a quick preview of the ADO.NET API. The Supported SQL part shows the SQL syntax supported by the RSSBus ADO.NET Provider for Amazon SimpleDB and points out limitations if any.

The RSSBus ADO.NET Provider for Amazon SimpleDB also supports LINQ and Entity Framework as introduced in .NET 3.5. Using Entity Framework covers creating entity models with Entity Framework and performing queries with LINQ.

An important feature of the RSSBus ADO.NET Provider for Amazon SimpleDB is the ability to easily cache data locally. This allows the RSSBus ADO.NET Provider for Amazon SimpleDB to be used in an offline mode when access to the data source is not possible. It also enables complex SQL queries which otherwise are not supported by the underlying data source itself. See the section Caching Data for more details on this feature.

Finally, please refer to the Data Model to see the tables, views, and stored procedures available for the RSSBus ADO.NET Provider for Amazon SimpleDB.