December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 6m
English
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Chapter 6. Getting Started with ADO.NET
IN THIS CHAPTER
ADO.NET is Microsoft's new technology for accessing data. Microsoft has long been at the forefront of the universal data access movement, starting with the original Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) almost nine years ago. There's really no disputing the importance of data access to modern applications, but how you access the data has a significant impact on the performance and scalability of the application. Add to this the fact that applications are growing increasingly distributed, and passing large amounts of data from one place to another becomes an even more critical part ...