Summary

Today you learned how to create a simple ASP.NET application using ADO.NET to update the product catalog of the ComputeBooks database. This application demonstrated some of the features of VS .NET and how they work with ADO.NET to generate code and allow graphical creation of even Web applications. In addition, you gained a perspective on how the components of ADO.NET fit together and the rudimentary code needed to make them work.

Tomorrow, you'll start to delve deeply into the DataSet object and how it can be manipulated programmatically.

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