Chapter 23 ADO.NET
What’s in This Chapter
- Connecting to databases
- Bound controls
DataGridView,DataGrid, and detail interfacesDataSets- ADO.NET
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Databases play an important role in many software applications. A large percentage of business applications use databases to store, arrange, and otherwise manipulate data.
Because databases play such an important role in so many programs, companies such as Microsoft have spent a huge amount of time building database tools. As a consequence, there are several methods you can use to work with databases. Some of the most recent methods include the Entity Framework and LINQ to ADO.NET, which includes LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities, and LINQ to DataSet. Those techniques were covered briefly in Chapter 8, “LINQ.”
This chapter provides a brief introduction to ADO.NET, a set of classes that provide more direct access to the underlying database. It also shows how you can use bound database components and controls to quickly build simple applications that let you create, edit, and delete database records.
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