A First Look at ADO.NET and System.Xml v. 2.0

As we discussed in there are many changes, updates, and improved features in ADO.NET version 2.0. In this chapter we'll look in detail at...

The New Bulk Data Copy Features SQL Server comes with a command-line utility named BCP that can be used to copy rows into a database table....

The New Batched Update Features The bulk copy classes discussed in the previous section provide the most efficient way to load a set of data into...

An exciting new feature added to ADO.NET is the enabling of individual "pages" of data to be fetched from a data source. Where an application...

A relatively simple technique that may be useful for monitoring the processes in progress across a connection to a data store has been added to...

This chapter has covered a range of different topics and features that are new in ADO.NET version 2.0. These features are designed both to make...