Programming Microsoft® ADO.NET 2.0 Core Reference, 2nd Edition

Chapter 14. Building Effective Web Applications

In this chapter:

Brief Introduction to Web Applications

Connecting to Your Database

Challenges Interacting with Databases in ASP.NET 1.0

Introducing Data Source Controls

Caching Data Between Roundtrips

Paging

Questions That Should Be Asked More Frequently

Now that you’ve learned about building Microsoft Windows data applications, let’s look at their Web counterparts—Microsoft ASP.NET applications.

The new data access features in ASP.NET 2.0 make it even easier to build Web applications that interact with databases. You can now create Web pages that retrieve data from a database, display data in a Web browser, allow the user to modify that data, and submit changes back to the database, all without writing ...