June 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1344 pages
42h 52m
English
The ADO.NET object model provides an API for accessing database systems programmatically. ADO.NET was created for the .NET framework to replace Microsoft’s ActiveX Data Objects™ (ADO) technology. As will be discussed in the next section, the IDE features visual programming tools that simplify the process of using a database in your projects. While you may not need to work directly with many ADO.NET objects to develop simple applications, basic knowledge of how the ADO.NET object model works is important for understanding data access in Visual Basic.
Namespace System.Data is the root namespace for the ADO.NET API. The other important ADO.NET namespaces, ...
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