July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Content preview from Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Introducing ADO.NET
ADO.NET is the .NET Framework area that provides the capability to access data from databases, and can be thought of as the .NET version of ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), which was the data access technology prior to .NET, based on the COM architecture. ADO.NET can be observed from two perspectives, known as connected and disconnected modes. It can access data from different data sources thanks to data providers. In the next sections, you learn about providers and connection modes and how you can access data in a connected environment.
After completing these procedures, a recap on DataSets is offered before discussing LINQ in the next chapter.