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A Programmer's Guide to .NET
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A Programmer's Guide to .NET

by Alexei Fedorov
July 2002
Beginner
720 pages
14h 35m
English
Pearson Business
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12.5. DataReader class

Earlier in this chapter we defined a DataReader class as one that supports reading a forward-only stream of data rows from a data source. Both managed providers implement the IDataReader interface and inherit the following properties.

  • Depth Returns the level of nesting for the current row as an Integer value.

  • IsClosed This Boolean property indicates whether or not the data reader is closed.

  • RecordsAffected Returns the number of rows (as an Integer value) changed, inserted, or deleted by the execution of the SQL statement. If no rows are affected or the statement fails, this property will be set to 0, and for SELECT statements this property will be set to –1.

OleDbDataReader and SqlDataReader classes also have the following ...

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