May 2004
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
22h 31m
English
ADO.NET supports two types of development environments: connected and disconnected (see Figure 17.1). Each environment includes its own set of classes to support the intended functionality.
The connected environment classes provide read-only data retrieval from data sources. It also enables developers to execute commands against the data source to make changes to it—provided that such functionality is supported by the data source. The connected environment basically works with a physical data store to which a connection is maintained.
The disconnected ...
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