Chapter 14. ADO.NET Data Objects

A major part of most applications you develop is storing, retrieving, and updating data. The .NET Compact Framework provides data access by implementing ADO.NET classes with connections available to a central or an enterprise SQL Server database, to a SQL Server Compact Edition (CE) database running on the smart device, and to XML Web services.

First this chapter examines in detail how to use some of the basic ADO.NET classes. You’ll see how these classes provide a simple and convenient way of representing, creating, and manipulating the data that an application needs. Next you’ll see how some of the ADO.NET objects can be used to provide a locally persisted data store through their ability to read and write XML ...

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