Connecting to Databases and Reading Data
o What Is ADO.NET?
o The Process for Connecting to a Database and Reading Data
o What Is Connection Pooling?
Querying and Updating Databases by Using Commands
o ADO.NET Commands
o The Process for Passing Parameters into Commands
Performing Transactional Operations
o What Is a Transaction?
o The Process for Managing Local Transactions
o The Process for Managing Distributed Transactions
o Isolation Levels
Performing Disconnected Operations Programmatically
o What Is the ADO.NET Disconnected Model?
o The Process for Loading and Saving Data in a DataSet
o What Are DataViews?
Performing Disconnected Operations by Using Visual Studio 2005 Wizards
o Comparing Untyped DataSets with Typed DataSets
o What Are Table Adapters?
o Demonstration: Creating a Typed DataSet by Using Visual Studio 2005 Wizards
Performing XML Operations on Disconnected Data
o XML Representations of DataSets
o What Are DiffGrams?
Reading and Writing XML Data
o The Process for Serially Reading XML Data
o The Process for Serially Writing XML Data
Processing XML Data by Using DOM
o What Is DOM?
o What Are DOM Trees?
o Types of XML Nodes in a DOM Tree
