Looking Inside ADO.NET
In the .NET Framework class library (FCL), the System.Data namespace has all the classes you need to access any type of database or data store. Before .NET, you used ADO to accomplish your data access tasks. ADO was a great technology for data access, but it wasn't designed for disconnected environments such as the Internet. ADO.NET was written from the ground up to include robust support for disconnected applications. The good news for developers is that ADO and ADO.NET have similar syntaxes, so learning how to code ADO.NET will be a snap if you've ever used ADO.
Every data access scenario includes several common operations when accessing databases:
- Connecting to a database
- Selecting one or more records from one or more ...
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