Saturday, August 29, 2009

Learning ADO.NET

I had recently tried to write a program which accessed a database and found that I was unfamiliar with ADO.NET which C# uses. Deciding to learn, I started out with Sams Teach Yourself ADO.NET in 21 Days, but found that it was targeted to Visual Studio 2002 and .Net 1.1 and totally missed the current state of Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 and .Net 2.0 and above. Deciding to try again with another book, I'm currently working through Microsoft® ADO.NET 2.0 Step by Step. I have also liked the idea of using SQLite as the database engine since it is totally self contained, so I converted the sample database and have been working through every exercise using System.Data.SQLite instead of Microsoft's SQL Server.

Get the SQLite version of the example database included in the ADONETSBS.exe Sample Files here:
AdoStepByStep.sqlite

Have fun

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