Microsoft® Visual C#® .NET 2003 Kick Start

Connections, Data Adapters, and Datasets

This chapter begins our database work, a very big topic in C#. In fact, Microsoft says that most Visual Studio work involves databases. Database handling is an extensive subject in C# programming, so we'll spend this and the next chapter on it. As with the rest of the book, this will be a programmer-to-programmer discussion, so we're going to omit some of the basics; for example, we're going to assume you're familiar with what a database is and at least introductory SQL here.

There are two ways to work with databases in C#—using the IDE's visual tools, and in code. In this chapter, we're going to work with the visual tools, and in the next chapter, we'll handle databases exclusively in code.

When you work ...