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Mastering Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008
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Mastering Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008

by Evangelos Petroutsos
March 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
1152 pages
33h 45m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 23. Building Data-Bound Applications

In the previous chapter, you learned about the two basic classes for interacting with databases: The Connection class provides the members you need to connect to the database, and the Command class provides the members you need to execute commands against the database. A data-driven application also needs to store data at the client, and you know how to use a DataReader to grab data from the database, and a DataAdapter to populate a DataSet at the client.

In addition to the DataSets we've created in the previous chapter, Visual Studio also allows you to create typed DataSets. A typed DataSet is designed with visual tools at design time and its structure is known to the compiler, which can generate very ...

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