Visual Basic® .NET Power Coding

Introduction

Often the smallest attention to details or the extra bit of wisdom makes all the difference in the world. In programming, knowing that a well-understood pattern applies to the problem you need to solve can turn several days of tedious effort spent hacking out a new (and possibly inferior) solution into just a couple hours of programming. And often it is the simplest evolutionary revisions that make all the difference in the utility of a technology. This latter concept applies to ADO.NET.

From Chapter 11 you know that ADO.NET revised ADO to address real problems of scalability and reliability when it comes to Internet programming. In this chapter I show you how ADO.NET has all the old reliable behaviors, like stored procedure and ...