12.1. Basic ADO.NET Features

This chapter begins with a quick look at the basics of ADO.NET and then provides an overview of basic ADO.NET capabilities, namespaces, and classes. It also reviews how to work with the Connection, Command, DataAdapter, DataSet, and DataReader objects.

12.1.1. Common ADO.NET Tasks

Before jumping into some of the new features of ADO.NET 2.0, step back and make sure that you understand some of the common tasks you might perform programmatically within ADO.NET. This next section looks at selecting, inserting, updating, and deleting data.