Workshop

This workshop will help reinforce the concepts covered in today's lesson.

Quiz

1:How can you obtain the ODBC .NET Data Provider?
A1: The Odbc provider doesn't ship with VS .NET, so you must go to msdn.microsoft.com and download it. After it is downloaded, it will install into the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) and can be referenced in your projects using the Add References dialog.
2:What kinds of connections can you use with the Odbc provider?
A2: Just as traditionally done, you can use either a user or system DSN specified by the DSN attribute, a file DSN specified with the FileDSN attribute, or a DSN-less connection string that specifies the driver and any driver-specific attributes.
3:What is the advantage to implementing a data reader ...

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