Introduction

Welcome to Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Step by Step. ADO.NET is the data access component of the Microsoft .NET Framework development platform. The exercises in this book will introduce you to the ADO.NET object model and show you how to use that model in developing data-bound Windows Forms and Web Forms. In later topics, we'll look at how ADO.NET interacts with Extensible Markup Language (XML) and how to access older versions of ADO from the .NET environment.

An exhaustive treatment of data handling would be, well, exhausting, so this book is necessarily limited in scope. My goal is to provide you with an understanding of the ADO.NET data objects—what they are and how they work together. So fair warning: This book will not make you an expert ...

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