Beginning ASP.NET Databases Using VB.NET (PDF)

What is this book about?For a web site to offer its users an experience that improves onthat of newspapers or textbooks, it needs a way to change theinformation it contains dynamically - and that means it needsaccess to a data source. Through the combination of ASP.NET andADO.NET, Microsoft provides everything necessary to access, readfrom, and write to a database, and then allow web users to view andmanipulate that data from a web browser. In this book, we'll showyou how it's done.What does this book cover?Packed with clear explanations and hands-on examples, BeginningASP.NET Databases contains everything you'll need on your journeyto becoming a confident, successful programmer of data-driven websites. In particular, we'll look at:* Connecting to common data sources, including SQL Server and MSAccess* Reading data with data reader and dataset objects* Creating and deleting records, and editing data* Displaying data with ASP.NET's web server controls* Writing and using stored procedures from VB.NET code* Placing your data access code in reusable class librariesThe book closes with a real-world case study that consolidatesthe tutorials throughout the book into a practical result.Who is this book for?To use this book, you need a computer running either Windows2000 or Windows XP Professional Edition. The examples it containswill not run on Windows XP Home Edition.This book is for people who have some experience of programmingASP.NET with Visual Basic .NET, are familiar with the operation ofthe .NET Framework, and want to learn how to use ASP.NET to makedata-centric web applications. No prior knowledge of databaseprogramming is necessary.