ADO.NET Programming in VB.NET

With ADO.NET, you can build database-enabled applications and Web services with more speed, flexibility, and power than ever before. ADO.NET Programming in Visual Basic .NET teaches you all you'll need to know to make the most of ADO.NET - whether you're an experienced Visual Basic database programmer or not. The authors' realistic code examples and practical insights illuminate ADO.NET from its foundations to state-of-the-art data binding and application optimization.

If this book is titled ADO .NET Programming in Visual Basic .NET, why do I keep referring to Visual Studio? Well, in the past, VB (and its variants, VBScript and VB For Applications) was the most natural environment for ADO database programming. The other Visual Studio tools (Visual C++, Visual Interdev, Visual FoxPro) could all use ADO, but since ADO was designed around the COM (Component Object Model) architecture, VB was the easiest way to use the package. With the advent of Visual Studio .NET, this has all changed.

Visual Studio .NET no longer uses COM as its underlying architecture. Instead it uses the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). (You can still use your old COM objects in .NET, even ADO, but that is outside the scope of this book.) The common language runtime (CLR) interpreter allows all of the managed languages (VB, Managed C++, and C#) to utilize a common set of data types and interfaces so they can all use the same objects interchangeably. In fact, you can write components in C# and use them in VB and vice-versa. So while we will use VB .NET syntax in all of the examples and demonstrations in the book, the principles we are sharing will apply equally to C#.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Visual Basic .NET Database Programming
Chapter 02 - Object-Oriented Programming in Visual Basic .NET
Chapter 03 - Visual Basic .NET Database Tools
Chapter 04 - The ADO .NET Class Library
Chapter 05 - Connecting to Databases
Chapter 06 - ADO .NET DataAdapters
Chapter 07 - The ADO .NET DataSet
Chapter 08 - Data Binding in Windows Forms
Chapter 09 - Data Binding in Web Forms
Chapter 10 - Building XML Web Services
Chapter 11 - Creating Your Own Data Control

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