Beginning C# 2008: From Novice to Professional

Chapter 14. Learning About Relational Database Data

Literally hundreds of techniques, tips, tricks, and libraries are associated with relational databases. Covering relational databases would take an entire a book, and in fact, many books are devoted to that subject. This chapter will cover the basics and give you enough knowledge to read and write to a database.

The focus of this chapter is to demonstrate accessing relational databases with ADO.NET and the Visual Studio Dataset Designer. Since we'll need a database to work with, you'll also learn how to create a database with Visual C# Express.

A relational database stores data, such as the lottery numbers in Chapter 10's example. Building on that lottery-prediction example, in this chapter, you'll ...