Your definitive guide to the core topics for creating distributed, datacentric applications.

Build your expertise as you move beyond the basics-and delve into the essential topics of programming with ADO.NET 2.0. This comprehensive reference offers expert guidance, hands-on instruction, and code samples in Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic to help advance your mastery of developing database applications for Microsoft Windows and the Web.

Discover how to:

• Work with design-time data access features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
• Use Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 data providers to connect to databases
• Build connection strings and enable connection pooling
• Execute queries, including parameterized and asynchronous queries, and retrieve their results
• Create DataSet objects to work with offline data and explore common usage scenarios
• Use the new Common Language Runtime features and XML data type in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Generate logic and use stored procedures for simple to advanced updating scenarios
• Design Web applications with new data access features in ASP.NET 2.0-including code-free data-binding capabilities

PLUS-Get Visual Basic and C# code samples, and a Microsoft .NET Data Provider on the Web