The .NET Data Provider offers a series of .NET types to describe the user's data, .NET provider classes to manipulate the data, and connection pooling to efficiently manage data connections.

The design and naming conventions of the .NET Data Provider's data types, classes, properties, and methods follow the same pattern as the Microsoft .NET Data Providers. Consequently, developers who are familiar with the Microsoft providers can easily develop or convert existing code from Microsoft databases to Ingres or Vector databases.

All .NET Data Provider modules are written in C#, a managed .NET language with full access to every .NET Framework capability. Even though the data provider is written in C#, any managed language such as VB.NET or J# can use the data provider because of .NET's language interoperability feature.