Programming Microsoft® ADO.NET 4

Extend your expertise as you move beyond the basics -- and delve into the essential topics of programming with ADO.NET 4. 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 Windows and the Web.

Discover how to:

• Connect to databases directly from your application to retrieve and manipulate data
• Use ADO.NET 4 to retrieve server-generated values
• Interact with an application s UI with data binding
• Model and interact with data using ADO.NET Entity Framework
• Query Microsoft SQL Server databases with LINQ to SQL
• Manage datasets from a variety of databases with LINQ to DataSet
• Use ADO.NET as an offline data cache for your application