Introduction

As mentioned in the summary of the previous chapter, there are a quite a few ADO.NET topics that simply couldn't all fit into a single chapter. Obviously, since entire books are written on the subject of ADO.NET, I'm not going to be able to cover it all in two chapters either. However, this chapter continues where the previous chapter left off with a number of ADO.NET topics that I'm frequently queried about once people get past the “gee whiz” factor of disconnected data and start implementing production systems. Among these topics are learning how to read and write binary data, such as photos; associating related tables with the DataRelation class for easier and more efficient navigation; and handling concurrency issues with multiuser, ...

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