Teach yourself the fundamentals of ADO.NET 2.0—one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the guidance you need to start creating data centric applications for Microsoft Windows and the Web.

Discover how to:

• Work in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 development environment
• Use the ADO.NET 2.0 classes in either Visual Basic or Visual C#
• Connect to and manipulate different data sources: Microsoft SQL Server, XML, OLE DB
• Create ADO.NET objects at either design time or run time
• Use visual design tools
• Sort, filter, and manipulate data
• Build data-bound Windows Forms and Web Forms
• Work with validation controls
• Read and write XML data and schemas

CD features:

• Code samples
• Sample databases

For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.