ADO.NET: From Novice to Pro, Visual Basic .NET Edition

Designed to get programmers up to professional level as fast as possible, ADO.NET: From Novice to Pro is aimed toward both developers who have little or no experience with ADO.NET (or with .NET in general) and programmers who are not comfortable with database programming. Best-selling author Peter Wright painlessly moves readers from simple database access to the sophisticated manipulation of XML documents.

The book begins by showing you the basic architecture of ADO.NET and then provides you with what you need to know about data providers and the new Connection, Command, and DataSet objects. Wright then drills down into the topics professional developers need to grasp, such as transactions, concurrency, typed DataSets, and using XML with ADO.NET.

Through working code adaptable to individual projects and numerous hands-on examples, you will learn how to create fast and powerful ADO.NET enterprise applications. The end goal of this book is to enable you to work at a professional level utilizing Microsoft's most modern data-access technology: ADO.NET!

Contents

Chapter 1: Welcome to ADO.NET

Chapter 2: Fundamental ADO.NET Code

Chapter 3: Data Commands and DataReaders

Chapter 4: DataSets Inside Out: Tables

Chapter 5: DataSets Inside Out: Navigating

Chapter 6: Introducing Windows Forms Applications

Chapter 7: Deeper into ADO.NET with Windows Forms

Chapter 8: ADO.NET and Web Forms

Chapter 9: Transactions and Concurrency

Chapter 10: The OLE DB Data Provider

Chapter 11: Introducing System.XML

Chapter 12: XML and ADO.NET