May 2006
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
17h 18m
English
Content preview from Microsoft® Visual C# 2005 UnleashedChapter 20. Strongly Typed
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Chapter 20. Strongly Typed DataSets
IN THIS CHAPTER
- Introduction to the Typed
DataSet - Connecting Typed
DataSets to Live Data - Annotating a Typed
DataSet - Extending a Typed
DataSetUsing Partial Classes
So far in this book you have been exposed to many different aspects of data access using ADO.NET. One of the core pieces of ADO.NET is the DataSet, an in-memory representation of relational data that can contain multiple related tables, each with primary and foreign keys. DataSets also let you perform queries on the data contained within them, as well persisting that data in XML format. Using a DataAdapter, you can synchronize data contained in a DataSet with data stored in a back-end data source such as SQL Server or Oracle.
This chapter introduces ...