Table of Contents

Installing MSDE.- A simple Data-driven Sample App.- Introduction to SQL.- What's ADO.NET? - Basic Rules.- Connecting to a Database.- Acquiring Data.- Using DataReader.- The DataSet and DataAdapter.- Data within Windows Applications.- Using Data in ASP.NET Pages.- Validating User Input.- Tables and Relationships.- More about SQL.- Views and Stored Procedures.- Indexes and Constraints.- Database Security.- ADO.NET and XML.- Handling ADO.NET Errors.- Transactions.- ADO.NET Events.- Irregular Data.

About the Author

Dan Maharry is a UK-based professional technical author with over a dozen books to his name and many more as technical reviewer and editor for a variety of publishers including Wrox, Apress, Microsoft Press and O'Reilly Associates. He's also a .NET developer with past stints for the dotCoop TLD registry and various web development houses under his belt. He contributes code and documentation to various open source projects and tries to blog and to speak from time to time to user groups about cool stuff. He listens to a lot of new music as he does the above.