Pro ADO.NET ith VB .NET 1.1 [Paperback]

*Fully-updated for ADO 1.1 and latest ADO.NET release; additional material on latest updates includes Oracle Provider.

*Practical examples relevant to the problems that programmers face in their daily work.

Calling all Visual Basic .NET programmers and web developers! This highly anticipated book provides thorough instruction for using ADO.NET, supported with numerous relevant code examples and extensive technical information. So whether you’re developing web applications using ASP.NET, Windows Forms applications, or XML Web Services, you’ll become adept at maximizing .NET's data access technology.

Topics include: ADO.NET data architecture; data readers, adapters, and DataSets; safer development with XML Schemas; data relationships; and ADO.NETs built-in support and performance optimization. With such valuable content, you’ll come to master a solution-oriented approach to ADO.NET.

ADO.NET is Microsoft's latest data access technology, but is far more than just an ADO upgrade. As an integral part of the .NET Framework, ADO.NET provides an extensive set of .NET classes that facilitate access to data within a variety of sources. Further, the product enables sophisticated data manipulation and sorting. ADO.NET also forms an important framework for communication between applications.