April 2003
Beginner to intermediate
620 pages
21h 48m
English
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Contents of This Book
This book consists of a tutorial section that explains ADO.NET concepts, a class library references that describes every ADO.NET type, and several appendixes with supplementary information.
The best place to begin your exploration of ADO.NET is with the foundation chapters in Part I. Here’s a brief description of those chapters:
- Chapter 1
Introduces the basic ADO.NET objects and their roles.
- Chapter 2
Describes the classes that make up an ADO.NET data provider and the providers available with the .NET framework.
- Chapter 3
Describes how to create a connection to a data source using ADO.NET and handle connection pooling.
- Chapter 4
Describes the first level of ADO.NET: connection-based programming to perform live record updates, inserts, and deletions. Also shows how to interact with stored procedures and create parameterized commands.
- Chapter 5
Explains how to retrieve the results of a query from a data source using a read-only, forward-only cursor. Also briefly demonstrates how you can write provider-agnostic ADO.NET code
- Chapter 6
Introduces the heart of ADO.NET’s disconnected data features: the
DataSet.- Chapter 7
Introduces the
DataTableobject that stores one or more rowsets in aDataSet.- Chapter 8
Explains the
DataColumnobject, which together withConstraintobjects defines the schema for aDataTable.- Chapter 9
Explains the
DataRowobject, which contains an individual row of data in aDataTable.- Chapter 10
Describes
Constraintobjects, which enforce unique ...
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