Day 2. Getting Started
Yesterday you learned about the history and goals of ADO.NET that hopefully allowed you to put it in proper context. Today you'll begin to use ADO.NET both graphically and programmatically. Today's goal is to familiarize you with the two primary ways of working with ADO.NET in Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET). To that end, you will learn:
How to connect to and view data through the Server Explorer
How to use the VS .NET designer to build a simple application to retrieve data and update a database
How to programmatically instantiate, populate, and invoke ADO.NET objects to retrieve and update data in a simple application
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