Sams Teach Yourself ADO.NET in 21 Days

Dan Fox's no-nonsense approach gets to the answers corporate developers need most to use ADO.NET in practical applications. Provides tutorial-based coverage about the purpose and architecture of ADO.NET and how it fits into .NET development. Compares ADO.NET to classic ADO, tells how it integrates with XML, SQL Server, and Oracle. Prevents wasting time looking through online documentation for example code. ADO.NET refers to a set of classes that ship with Visual Studio .NET that allow developers to access data typically stored in relational databases. The purpose of this book is to explain the important features of ADO.NET to corporate developers who use VS .NET. Dan Fox also provides architectural guidance and best practices for using ADO.NET in corporate applications. Reference Tables show how members of ADO.NET classes fit into the bigger picture by denoting why or where the method or property is used. This book is filled with code snippets and code listings in both VB .NET and VC# .NET, sidebars, and mini case studies that briefly explore peripheral issues, tips, cautions, and additional resources. Dan Fox is a Technical Director for Quilogy, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. He has developed, designed, and architected client-server, Web-based, and distributed solutions using Visual Basic, Visual Interdev, SQL Server, MTS, COM+, and ADO. Dan has taught the Microsoft development curriculum to thousands of students. Dan regularly speaks at conferences and writes articles on a variety of topics including data access with relational databases-his area of expertise. Books Dan has authored include Pure Visual Basic, ISBN 0-672-31598-X, $24.99, 1999, and Building Distributed Applications with Visual Basic .NET, ISBN 0-672-32130-0, $44.99, 2002, both for Sams Publishing.