Sams Teach Yourself ADO.NET in 21 Days

ADO.NET in .NET

In this section, you'll drill down to look at how ADO.NET is architected to realize the design goals discussed in the previous section. Let's begin with a review of the execution environment in which ADO.NET runs and then move on to the namespaces, classes, and interfaces that make up ADO.NET in the .NET Framework.

Managed Code Review

Although the ins and outs of managed code and the Common Language Runtime are beyond the scope of this book, it's important to have a foundational understanding of how the code you write for ADO.NET is actually executed.

Note

For an in-depth look at the common language runtime, see Essential .NET Volume I by Don Box, published by Addison-Wesley. Chapter 1 of my Sams book Building Distributed Applications ...