Your hands-on step-by-step guide to building applications with ADO.NET 2.0.

Teach yourself the fundamentals of ADO.NET 2.0 one step at a time. With this practical learn-by-doing tutorial you get the guidance you need to start creating datacentric applications for Microsoft Windows and the Web.Discover how to:
•Work in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 development environment
•Use the ADO.NET 2.0 classes in either Visual Basic or Visual C#
•Connect to and manipulate different data sources: Microsoft SQL Server XML OLE DB
•Create ADO.NET objects at either design time or run time
•Use visual design tools
•Sort filter and manipulate data
•Build data-bound Windows Forms and Web Forms
•Work with validation controls
•Read and write XML data and schemas CD features:
•Code samples
•Sample databases