In Brief
This chapter gave us our start in database handling. Here's an overview of this chapter's topics:
ADO.NET is the main data access protocol in C#. ADO.NET centers on three primary objects—connection objects, which let you connect to data sources; data adapter objects, which store SQL statements and are responsible for fetching and storing data; and dataset objects, which hold a copy of your data locally. ADO.NET uses a disconnected data architecture, where no connection to the data source is maintained. Connections are made when you need to get more data or update the data in the data source.
The IDE comes with several visual tools that let you work with databases. For example, the Server Explorer lets you examine not only which database ...
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