Dive in for reference where you need it—and learn the intricacies of developing sleeker, more robust, security-enhanced applications in ADO.NET 2.0. Featuring code samples in Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic, this reference goes beyond the fundamentals to help professional developers solve sophisticated enterprise development problems.

Discover how to:

• Examine advanced connectivity options and best practices—including connection pooling, clustered connections, and asynchronous access
• Use tracing to diagnose application flow and performance issues
• Resolve concurrency conflicts and implement a data access layer
• Implement seamless application failover from one Microsoft SQL Server database to another
• Use managed code and the SQLCLR to create stored procedures, user-defined functions and types, aggregates, and triggers
• Write effective data-caching code to improve application performance
• Use the Systems.Transactions namespace to work with Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Implement streaming techniques to “chunk” data
• Apply various methods to extract and modify XML data

PLUS—Get code samples on the Web