Visual Basic® Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library

Chapter 15. Data Storage and Access

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Key Classes Related to Data

• An Overview of ADO.NET

• Queries and Resultsets

• Updating Data Directly to a Database

• Executing Stored Procedures

• Managing Cached Data and Schemas

• Learning by Example: DatabaseExplorer

Some of the fundamental questions that developers ask during system design are: Should the application persist its data somewhere? If so, where and how? Persisting, or storing, data for later use is such a core concept that many of us simply take it as a “given” when we write our applications. Whether we store state in a database, in an INI file, or in the registry, we are forced to employ design patterns ranging from simple data queries and record inserts, to complicated transactional programming ...