May 2006
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
17h 18m
English
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Chapter 18. Advanced ADO.NET Techniques
IN THIS CHAPTER
- Working with the New Improved
DataTable - Accessing Data Asynchronously
- Updating Data in Batches
- Using the new
System.TransactionsNamespace
Undoubtedly, ADO.NET has made life a lot easier for developers. It provided a unified means for communicating with relational data sources, whether the source was SQL Server, Oracle, Access, or even XML. In this chapter, you will see some extremely powerful techniques that you can use in your ADO.NET 2.0 programming. You will see some of the improvements made to the DataTable class, as well as how to access data asynchronously, update data in batches, and even how to use the new unified transaction model provided by the System.Transactions namespace. ...