Build your expertise as you move beyond the basics—and delve into the essential topics of programming with ADO.NET 2.0. This comprehensive reference offers expert guidance, hands-on instruction, and code samples in Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic to help advance your mastery of developing database applications for Microsoft Windows and the Web.

Discover how to:

Work with design-time data access features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Use Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 data providers to connect to databases
Build connection strings and enable connection pooling
Execute queries, including parameterized and asynchronous queries, and retrieve their results
Create DataSet objects to work with offline data and explore common usage scenarios
Use the new Common Language Runtime features and XML data type in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Generate logic and use stored procedures for simple to advanced updating scenarios
Design Web applications with new data access features in ASP.NET 2.0—including code-free data-binding capabilities

PLUS—Get Visual Basic and C# code samples, and a Microsoft .NET Data Provider on the Web

About the Author

David Sceppa is a program manager on the SQL Server� team at Microsoft and an expert on ADO.NET. As a former technical lead in the Microsoft Developer Support group, he helped customers build database applications with Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual FoxPro�. David is MCSD certified in Microsoft .NET and has a background in teaching.

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