ADO.NET: From Novice to Pro, Visual Basic .NET Edition (.Net Developer)

Designed to get programmers up to professional levels as fast as possible, __ADO.NET: From Novice to Pro__ is geared toward developers who have little or no .NET or ADO.NET experience, as well as programmers who are not yet 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 the tools you'll need to work with data providers and the Connection, Command, and DataSet objects. Wright then drills down into the topics that are essential for you as a professional developer to understand, including transactions, concurrency, typed DataSets, and the use of XML with ADO.NET. Through numerous hands-on examples and working code that is adaptable to individual projects, you'll learn how to create fast and powerful ADO.NET enterprise applications. By the end of this book, you'll be able to work at a professional level utilizing Microsoft's most powerful data-access technology.

Designed to get programmers up to professional levels as fast as possible, ADO.NET: From Novice to Pro is geared toward developers who have little or no .NET or ADO.NET experience, as well as programmers who are not yet 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 the tools you'll need to work with data providers and the Connection, Command, and DataSet objects. Wright then drills down into the topics that are essential for you as a professional developer to understand, including transactions, concurrency, typed DataSets, and the use of XML with ADO.NET.

Through numerous hands-on examples and working code that is adaptable to individual projects, you'll learn how to create fast and powerful ADO.NET enterprise applications. By the end of this book, you'll be able to work at a professional level utilizing Microsoft's most powerful data-access technology.

Front Matter....Pages i-xix Welcome to ADO.NET....Pages 1-26 Fundamental ADO.NET Code....Pages 27-51 Data Commands and DataReaders....Pages 53-75 DataSets Inside Out: Tables....Pages 77-111 DataSets Inside Out: Navigating....Pages 113-141 Introducing Windows Forms Applications....Pages 143-185 Deeper into ADO.NET with Windows Forms....Pages 187-216 ADO.NET and Web Forms....Pages 217-256 Transactions and Concurrency....Pages 257-280 The OLE DB Data Provider....Pages 281-290 Introducing System.Xml....Pages 291-311 XML and ADO.NET....Pages 313-336 Back Matter....Pages 337-364 The author shows developers with litte or no ADO.NET background how to apply ADO.NET fast to real world scenarios by giving examples and code that really works.