Build your expertise as you move beyond the basics—and delve into the essential topics of programming with ADO.NET 2.0. This comprehensive reference offers expert guidance, hands-on instruction, and code samples in Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic to help advance your mastery of developing database applications for Microsoft Windows and the Web.
Discover how to:
- Work with design-time data access features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
- Use Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 data providers to connect to databases
- Build connection strings and enable connection pooling
- Execute queries, including parameterized and asynchronous queries, and retrieve their results
- Create DataSet objects to work with offline data and explore common usage scenarios
- Use the new Common Language Runtime features and XML data type in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
- Generate logic and use stored procedures for simple to advanced updating scenarios
- Design Web applications with new data access features in ASP.NET 2.0—including code-free data-binding capabilities
PLUS—Get Visual Basic and C# code samples, and a Microsoft .NET Data Provider on the Web