Sams Teach Yourself ADO.NET in 21 Days

I hope that you've enjoyed the last three weeks and the time you've spent with ADO.NET! The last week focused on the design and implementation of multi- tier applications by focusing on each of the tiers, ranging from a high-level design view to the low-level implementation.

Among the key takeaways from this week should be that ADO.NET can be used to create high-performance distributed applications at least in part because of its ability to use data binding in Windows Forms and Web Forms applications, the ability to create an abstracted data services tier, and its ability to be used from within XML Web Services. You should also now understand the various techniques you can use and the reasons you might want to abstract the .NET Data Provider you intend to use in your applications.

Finally, this week should have reminded you that learning ADO.NET is time well spent because ADO.NET will play a big part in future directions on both the server and client side.

Now, you really should take a break, and it can even be a long one.