The author shows developers with litte or no ADO.NET background how to apply ADO.NET fast to real world scenarios by giving examples and code that really works.

Peter Wright has been programming with, and writing about, Microsoft development tools since 1992. He is the author of about a dozen books, including the international best selling series, Beginning Visual Basic, and has written numerous articles for the both the print and online press worldwide. Born in England, Peter now lives in Florida along with his wife, 2 kids, and 2 fluffy attack spaniels called Mac and Tosh.

Welcome to ADO.NET.- Fundamental ADO.NET Code.- Data Commands and DataReaders.- DataSets Inside Out: Tables.- DataSets Inside Out: Navigating.- Introducing Windows Forms Applications.- Deeper into ADO.NET with Windows Forms.- ADO.NET and Web Forms.- Transactions and Concurrency.- The OLE DB Data Provider.- Introducing System.Xml.- XML and ADO.NET.