October 2008
Beginner to intermediate
1024 pages
31h 30m
English
—Andrew Brust
Anyone who’s been working with Microsoft developer technologies for a long time knows that Microsoft comes out with new data access application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools on a fairly frequent basis. Going back to pre–.NET days, Microsoft Visual Basic programmers started with Data Access Objects (DAO) and then moved on to Remote Data Objects (RDO) before landing on ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). The last of these three provided the inspiration for Microsoft ADO.NET, which has, in successive versions, become a very sophisticated programming API for working with data (especially Microsoft SQL Server data) and, through typed DataSets, a powerful rapid application development (RAD) ...
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