Application #19. Use a Typed DataSet
In the first application in this chapter, you were introduced to the concept of a DataSet, a core object of ADO.NET. In this next topic, you’ll be adding to your knowledge of a generic, or untyped, DataSet its customizable subclass—known as a typed DataSet. You’ll learn how it differs from the untyped DataSet from which it derives, and why you might want to use a typed DataSet instead of its generic parent. You’ll also learn about the SqlCommandBuilder class and how it can be used in conjunction with the SqlDataAdapter class to update the data source of the DataSet object, pushing into SQL Server any changes that the DataSet object has been tracking.
The sample application shows you how to create and fill ...
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