Beginning ASP.NET Databases using VB.NET

For a web site to offer its users an experience that improves on that of newspapers or textbooks, it needs a way to change the information it contains dynamically - and that means it needs access to a data source. Through the combination of ASP.NET and ADO.NET, Microsoft provides everything necessary to access, read from, and write to a database, and then allow web users to view and manipulate that data from a web browser. In this book, we'll show you how it's done.

Packed with clear explanations and hands-on examples, Beginning ASP.NET Databases contains everything you'll need on your journey to becoming a confident, successful programmer of data-driven web sites. In particular, we'll look at:

* Connecting to common data sources, including SQL Server and MS Access

* 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 libraries

The book closes with a real-world case study that consolidates the tutorials throughout the book into a practical result.