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

The data access classes introduced into ADO.NET version and the techniques for using them are aimed at the needs of modern applications—in particular the two...

To understand what the topics covered in this chapter are really about, how they fit together, and what kinds of problems they are designed to...

ADO.NET provides a great new feature called MARS. We discussed how useful this is in the first sections of this chapter, and here you'll see...

When accessing data in a data store such as a database using ADO or ADO.NET 1.x, each query is executed in turn, and the code...

ObjectSpaces is probably one of the most revolutionary and exciting of the new techniques being introduced into .NET as far as data access is concerned....

This chapter has taken a focused look at three new topics in ADO.NET that can really improve the performance of your data access code—in a...