Programming ADO.NET

A powerful tool for delivering data-driven content across the Web, ADO.NET is the new set of data access services for Microsoft's .NET Framework. Because of its many new features, experienced and new programmers alike need to learn ADO.NET from the ground up.

• Provides detailed coverage of the objects that form the ADO.NET infrastructure
• Explores the relationship between ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML, and server-side tools such as SQL Server 2000 and BizTalk Server
• Features "Best Practices" sections that cover how to retrieve, manipulate, and update data with ADO.NET
• Companion Web site contains code examples in VB.NET and C#

A comprehensive ADO.NET reference, tutorial, and best practices all in one book

Seasoned trainers Richard Hundhausen and Steven Borg provide a thorough and detailed reference to everything that's ADO.NET. This is no small undertaking! The ADO.NET section of the .NET Framework, which you will come to know as System.Data and its related namespaces, delivers more than 200 classes, structures, and enumerations, each containing between five to fifty members. The authors have documented each namespace, including System.Data, System.Data.Common, System.Data.OleDb, System.Data.SqlClient, and System.Data.SqlTypes. In addition, numerous notes about what doesn't work in ADO.NET as advertised, workarounds, and shortcuts are provided.

This book also goes one step further by teaching you how to use ADO.NET with best practices and scads of working code, placing special emphasis on:

* The objects that form the ADO.NET infrastructure

* The relationship between ADO.NET, XML, and SQL Server 2000

* Complete code examples, available in Visual Basic .NET

* Proven "Best Practices" on how to retrieve, manipulate, and update data with ADO.NET and XML

The companion Web site contains code examples in Visual Basic .NET and other resources.

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RICHARD HUNDHAUSEN is an independent trainer and consultant, MCSD, MCDBA, and MCT. Richard has been architecting and building database applications on various platforms for over fifteen years. He has been teaching SQL Server and Visual Studio since 1997.

STEVEN BORG is an independent author, trainer, and consultant. A programmer since age fifteen, he was one of the first .NET adopters, and now trains and consults exclusively in .NET and XML development. In addition to a professional software development background, he has experience in applied mathematics, operations research, business process reengineering, and sales.

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