Damien Foggon is technical director and lead developer for Thing-E Ltd., a company specializing in the development of dynamic web solutions for the education sector. He was responsible for the development of several ASP and ColdFusion websites, and he's now in the process of moving most of them to ASP.NET. Before coauthoring .NET XML Web Services, Damien was a regular technical reviewer for numerous .NET books. After several false starts, he's busy assembling his personal site.

Data Sources and the Web.- Introducing Relational Databases.- Displaying Data on a Page.- Database Access in Code.- DataReader and DataSet.- Inline and List Binding.- Table Binding.- Writing to the Database.- The GridView Family.- Stored Procedures.- Modifying the Database Structure.- Useful Techniques.- Application Design and Implementation.

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