Chapter 10. Introduction to ADO.NET
OBJECTIVES
Learn about the ADO.NET classes
Compare ADO.NET to ADO
Most applications will need to manage data, sooner or later, and the .NET Framework provides ADO.NET as a data-handling API that's available to all .NET applications. You can think of ADO.NET as the latest evolution of Microsoft's database APIs, and it supplements the existing support for DAO, ADO, and other data-management object models. ADO.NET has been designed to make it possible to support multitiered, distributed applications. In addition, ADO.NET provides strong support for working with XML data.
Basically, ADO.NET is an object model that lets you build sets of data in memory. You can create DataSets from data you hard-code in a program, ...
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