Professional ADO.NET

ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) is a programming interface for accessing, retrieving, and manipulating data from a database when writing a Windows application. .NET is already featuring prominently in the development plans of many companies. An important part of the .NET umbrella, ADO.NET contains the data access components of the .NET framework. It completely updates ADO, giving it an XML based architecture, and more power and flexibility.-- First example-driven ADO.NET book on the market-- In-depth explanation of how to utilize ADO.NET within the .NET framework beta 2 release-- Concludes with several case studies, including one examining a real-world business application