Professional ADO.NET with VB.NET

ADO.NET is Microsoft's latest data access technology and, as an integral part of the .NET Framework, is far more than just an ADO upgrade. ADO.NET provides an extensive set of .NET classes that facilitate efficient access to data in a large variety of sources, enable sophisticated manipulation and sorting of data, and form an important framework within which to implement inter-application communication.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to using ADO.NET, with plenty of practical code examples and extensive technical information. Whether you're developing web applications using ASP.NET, Windows Forms applications, or XML Web Services, this book will show you how to use .NET's data access technology to maximum effect. Along the way, it looks at:

* Understanding the architecture of the ADO.NET data providers
* Reading and writing data with data readers, data adapters and DataSets
* Making development safer with XML Schemas and strongly typed DataSets
* Defining constraints on and relationships between your data
* Using ADO.NET's built-in support for transactional processing
* Optimizing the performance and security of your ADO.NET applications
* Developing your own data provider for a custom data source