October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
17h 15m
English
XML is the key element responsible for the greatly improved interoperability of the Microsoft ADO.NET object model when compared to Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). In ADO, XML was merely an I/O format (nondefault) used to persist the contents of a disconnected recordset. The participation of XML in the building and in the interworkings of ADO.NET is much deeper. The aspects of ADO.NET in which the interaction and integration with XML is stronger can be summarized in two categories: object serialization and remoting and a dual programming interface.
In ADO.NET, you have several options for saving objects to, and restoring objects from, XML documents. In effect, this capability belongs to one object ...
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