Programming Microsoft ADO.NET 4

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