Programming Microsoft ADO.NET 4

Description

Extend your expertise as you move beyond the basics -- and delve into the essential topics of programming with ADO.NET 4. This comprehensive reference offers expert guidance, hands-on instruction, and code samples in Microsoft Visual C#(R) and Visual Basic(R) to help advance your mastery of developing database applications for Windows(R) and the Web.

 Discover how to:

* Connect to databases directly from your application to retrieve and manipulate data
* Use ADO.NET 4 to retrieve server-generated values
* Interact with an application’s UI with data binding
* Model and interact with data using ADO.NET Entity Framework
* Query Microsoft SQL Server(R) databases with LINQ to SQL
* Manage datasets from a variety of databases with LINQ to DataSet
* Use ADO.NET as an offline data cache for your application