You need access to an Adaptive Server with the pubs2 sample database installed to run the sample programs; also, you need either the Visual Studio .NET 2005 or the .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, or 4.0 installed.
Samples\CSharp, which contains the three samples written in the C# programming language
Samples\VB.NET, which contains the three samples written in the Visual Basic .NET programming language
The default installation directory is C:\Sybase\DataAccess\ADONET for Adaptive Server ADO.NET Data Provider, 32-bit and C:\Sybase\DataAccess64\ADONET\dll for Adaptive Server ADO.NET Data Provider, 64-bit.