Programming MicrosoftВ® ADO.NET 2.0 Core Reference

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Sceppa, David, 1972-

     Programming ADO / David Sceppa.

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     Includes index.

     ISBN 0-7356-0764-8

     1. Database design.  2. Object oriented programming (Computer science)  3. ActiveX.

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