A repository in your Microsoft® Visual InterDev™ Web project that holds the information required to access data in databases. The data environment contains one or more data connections. Each data connection can reference one or more data commands that represent a method for querying or modifying the database.
Because data connection and data command information can be shared by multiple Web pages in your project, the data environment is managed as part of the project's Global.asa file.
For more information, see The Data Environment.