Chapter 12. Data Management with ADO.NET

This chapter provides information on programming with the data management features that are part of ADO.NET. The discussion begins with the basics of ADO.NET and later dives into the ways you can use the newly added ADO.NET 2.0 features to manage data contained in a relational database.

ADO.NET, first introduced in version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, provided an extensive array of features to handle live data in a connected mode or data that is disconnected from its underlying data store. ADO.NET 1.0 was primarily developed to address two specific problems in getting at data. The first had to do with the user's need to access data once and to iterate through a collection of data in a single instance. This need often arose in Web application development.