Introducing ADO.NET
Matthew A. MacDonald · Apress eBooks · 2004
So far, you’ve discovered that ASP.NET isn’t just a new way to create modern web applications—it’s also part of an ambitious multilayered strategy called.NET. ASP.NET is only one component in Microsoft’s.NET platform, which includes new languages, a new philosophy for cross-language integration, a new way of looking at components and deployment, and a shared class library with components that allow you to do everything from handling errors to analyzing XML documents. In this chapter, you’ll discover that the.NET Framework has yet another surprise in store: ADO.NET, Microsoft’s latest data access model.