What's Next
The intent of this chapter was to expose the integration points of ADO.NET and XML as well as introduce the synchronization capability between DataSets and XML.
In this chapter we explained how DataSets can read and write XML data. In addition, we showed how DataSets and XML data can be synchronized so that you can have differing views of the same data. We did not actually show how to programmatically walk through and read the XML data (other than using the DataSet directly) or how to manually construct an arbitrary XML document.
Both of these topics (reading and writing XML) are covered in the next two chapters. The next chapter explains the classes involved in reading the XML data once it is loaded. Chapter 34 explains how to manually ...
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