Day 10. Accessing Data with ADO.NET
Most of the applications that you write must access some sort of data store. Today, you learn about data access in .NET. ActiveX Data Objects .NET (ADO.NET) is the technology used in the .NET Framework for all database access. Before .NET, the main technology for data access was ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). ADO was great, but it had its drawbacks. But when there's only one way to do something, as with ADO and accessing data, it's easy to forget about the drawbacks and just work with what you have. Microsoft set out to fix all of these drawbacks in ADO.NET, which was written from the ground up specifically for data access in .NET and the challenges that developers face in the disconnected environment of the Internet. Today, you learn
The ADO.NET architecture and how it differs from ADO
How to connect to databases with the Connection object
How to use DataReaders
How to use the Command object
How to use DataAdapters
How to use DataSets
How to filter and sort DataSets with DataViews
Databinding fundamentals in Windows Forms
Day 13, "XML Web Services in .NET," you learn more about databinding controls and Web Forms. Today, we concentrate on understanding ADO.NET and Windows Forms.
• Table of Contents
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Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio® .NET 2003 in 21 Days
By
Jason Beres
Publisher
: Sams Publishing
Pub Date
: January 14, 2003
ISBN
: 0-672-32421-0
Pages
: 696
Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET in 21 Days will help developers that are new to application development and experienced developers understand how to use the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET to rapidly develop any type of computer application. The Visual Studio .NET development environment is the most comprehensive developer tool ever created, putting that together with the .NET Frameworks' Class Libraries, the developer has everything he or she needs to get up-to-speed on Microsoft's latest revolution in application development. This book will guide the developer through using the VS .NET IDE, the Visual Basic .NET and C# language, and the supporting tools available from Microsoft to create Windows and Web-based applications. The market is full of books that pretty much say the same thing, which is already available in the help files, the author of this book has written and deployed over a dozen successful applications using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework. All of his expertise and experience is used to give you the most comprehensive title on using Visual Studio .NET.