ASP.NET by Example

What's Next?

In Chapter 4, we will examine data access in ASP.NET. Those of you familiar with ADO should find the transition to ADO.NET to be relatively painless. ADO.NET provides some great new features over ADO, perhaps chief among them being the new Dataset object, which replaces the recordset as the primary ADO object. As you'll see, Datasets allow you to describe very detailed data spanning multiple tables, and even let you describe the relationships between the different tables within the Dataset. Because data access is one of the most important aspects of building dynamic Internet applications, we have chosen to tackle ADO.NET at this early stage of the book, so that future chapters can build on its usage and provide more useful examples. ...