Sample Database-Driven Web Application

The following chapters get into all the gritty details of the Data controls. Before you get lost in the details, however, I want to provide you with a sample of a data-driven web application. I want to provide you with a real-world application that illustrates what can be built with the Data controls.

In this section, a complete Employee Directory application is built, which supports displaying, adding, editing, and deleting employee information. The sample application includes all the necessary form field validation.

One of the amazing things about ASP.NET 4 Framework is how much the Framework simplifies data access. The sample application consists of a single page that contains little code. Writing ...

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