Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference)

Summary

This chapter has shown you how to use some of the ADO.NET objects that form the basis of data handling in the .NET Compact Framework. The most important object is the DataSet object, which forms a local data store in memory that allows data to be manipulated offline without a connection to a remote persistent data source. You have seen how the DataSet object can represent data in a relational way, how the DataSet object can persist its data and structure to a local XML file, and how it can use data binding to display data values and retrieve changes from UI controls. This chapter has shown that the DataSet object stores changed and original versions of data rows and tracks their status to enable a merging back into a remote data source. ...