Introduction
As the Microsoft .NET platform, and its supporting languages C# and VB, have matured, it has become apparent that one of the more troublesome areas still remaining for developers is that of accessing data from different data sources. In particular, database access and XML manipulation is often cumbersome at best, and problematic in the worst cases.
The database problems are numerous. First, there is the issue that we cannot programmatically interact with a database at the native language level. This means syntax errors often go undetected until runtime. Incorrectly referenced database fields are not detected either. This can be disastrous, especially if this occurs during the execution of error-handling code. Nothing is more frustrating ...
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