C# Developer[ap]s Guide to ASP. NET, XML, and ADO. NET

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Why a New Object Library for Data Access?

• New Features in ADO.NET

• Connecting to a Database

• Running Queries

• Using Data Adapters to Retrieve and Manipulate Data

• Creating Web Forms for Data Entry

• Handling Errors

• ADO.NET Framework Reference

The advent of .NET has opened an opportunity for Microsoft to revisit the design and architecture of all its core APIs with an eye toward making them simpler and more logical. This chapter examines how you can use ADO.NET to perform the common types of database operations that every application needs to perform and how you can take advantage of the new features of the database API to create more effective data-driven applications.