Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Chapter 22. Introducing ADO.NET and DataSets

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Introducing ADO.NET

• Introducing DataSets

For many years .NET developers have written data-centric applications in only two ways: connected or disconnected modes. For the disconnected fashion, DataSets played an important role, and still today lots of developers build or maintain applications based on DataSets, and probably you are one of them. But times change and technology goes on. Different data platforms, such as the ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL, have been introduced to the .NET world, and the classic approach is becoming obsolete. If you think of Silverlight applications, you cannot use DataSets. You instead use LINQ. Of course, there can be situations in which ...