Professional ADO .NET 2.0

Afew years ago, Microsoft released the 1.0 Framework of ADO.NET and revolutionized the way we access data. It was a drastic change that took some getting used to, but for the most part, developers who made the switch love it. It’s now over three years later, and ADO.NET 2.0 is here. It provides all the same features that we’ve come to love in ADO.NET 1.0 and adds some new ones to provide even more functionality and make repetitive, mundane tasks much simpler. Throughout this book, we dig deeply into many of these new features.

As you start reading, you’ll notice that several chapters go beyond ADO.NET, focusing more on Microsoft SQL Server 2005. This is because the two are very tightly related. Many of the new features in ADO.NET 2.0 are designed to be used with Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and many of the new features found in SQL 2005 require ADO.NET 2.0 to get the most benefit from them. It wouldn’t be practical to speak strictly about ADO.NET without providing some basic working knowledge about what’s new in SQL 2005. Most people will likely move to both technologies around the same time, so this additional information should be very beneficial.

As mentioned previously, this book contains information about both ADO.NET 2.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. It is useful for a wide variety of people, including IS managers, project managers, developers, database administrators, system architects, business analysts, and software testers. Of course, because it focuses on developing applications using ADO.NET, software developers will benefit most from it.

Because this book focuses primarily on the new features of ADO.NET 2.0, prior knowledge of ADO.NET 1.0, general .NET development, and Microsoft SQL Server is assumed. In order to completely use the information in this book, you will need a copy of Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - History of Data Access
Chapter 02 - Standardized Database Objects and Design
Chapter 03 - ADO.NET Essentials
Chapter 04 - Standard Data Types
Chapter 05 - ADO.NET Integration with XML
Chapter 06 - Transactions
Chapter 07 - Data Binding
Chapter 08 - Building a Custom ADO.NET Data Provider
Chapter 09 - T-SQL Language and Enhancements
Chapter 10 - ADO.NET Programming with SQL Server from a Client Application
Chapter 11 - SQL Server 2005 Server-Side Programming
Chapter 12 - Notification Services
Chapter 13 - Service Broker
Chapter 14 - Full-Text Searching
Chapter 15 - Reporting
Chapter 16 - ADO.NET 2 and Open-Source Databases
Chapter 17 - Oracle and ADO.NET

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