A single application that gets built chapter by chapter, along with numerous additional examples and exercises, helps readers get a handle on ADO.NET, the Microsoft data access technology used to create VB database applications
Shows how to create applications for three major database platforms-Access (using the OLE DB provider), SQL Server (using the SQL provider), and Oracle (using the Oracle provider)
Coverage includes creating queries, building a data access class, selecting and updating data, accessing data in ASP.NET, and working with XML Web services