ADO.NET in Visual Studio .NET

Because data access is so central to the design of most corporate enterprise applications, VS .NET includes a wealth of features designed to make using ADO.NET simple. These include the use of the Server Explorer, component designer, and wizards to graphically manipulate the underlying database and write the code to work with the ADO.NET classes.

To begin, let's walk through the construction of a very simple ASP.NET application in C#. This application queries the ComputeBooks product catalog and allows the user to make some modifications to demonstrate the graphical features of VS .NET that can be used with ADO.NET.

First, of course, you need to create an ASP.NET Web site using the New Project dialog accessed by ...

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