An introduction to ADO.NET

Murach's VB.NET Database Programming with ADO.NET (1.x edition) This chapter introduces you to the ADO.NET classes defined by the .NET Framework that you can use to access the data in a database. To see how well it works, you can download this chapter for free.
Chapter 2	An introduction to ADO.NET
	An overview of ADO.NET	28
	How ADO.NET works	28
	Two ways to create ADO.NET objects	30
	ADO.NET data providers	32
	The SQL Server and OLE DB data providers	32
	The SqlConnection class	34
	The SqlCommand class	34
	The SqlDataReader class	36
	The SqlDataAdapter class	36
	ADO.NET datasets	38
	How a dataset is organized	38
	The dataset classes	40
	Concurrency and the disconnected data architecture	42
	Perspective	44
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Murach's VB.NET Database Programming with ADO.NET (1.x edition)