Microsoft ADO.NET: Effective ADO.NET for developers

Course Overview

This ADO.net training course is designed to enable developers to use the toolset provided with.NET for data access including ADO.net objects, data controls, designers and interoperability with earlier ADO objects. The course is applicable for those using C# or VB.NET with ADO.NET

For those Microsoft students looking to improve their skills with ADO.NET, this Microsoft training course would be a good start.

Related Courses

• Microsoft ADO.NET: ADO.NET for C#
• Microsoft ADO.NET: ADO.NET for VB.NET
• Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.0: Entity Framework 4.0 with Data Services
• Microsoft ADO.NET ENtity Framework 4.0: Workshop ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.0

Audience

• Programmers working with ADO.Net.

Skills Gained

By the end of the course delegates will be able to:

• Retrieve and manipulate data using Microsoft's ADO.NET library.
• Work with the ADO.NET object model.
• Apply constraints and relationships to disconnected data.
• Update data, including handling stored procedures, parameters, and return values.
• Search, sort, and filter data.
• Leverage the power of XML.
• Use valuable techniques for building both Web and Windows applications.

Prerequisites

• VB.net or Introduction to C#.

Course Outline

Introducing ADO.Net

• Traditional Data Access Architecture.
• ADO.Net Disconnected Data Access Architecture.
• Different components of ADO.Net.

A review of basic SQL queries

• SQL SELECT Statement.
• SQL INSERT Statement.
• SQL UPDATE Statement.
• SQL DELETE Statement.

Common data access tasks with ADO.Net

• Accessing Data using ADO.Net.
• Defining the connection string.
• Defining a Connection.
• Defining the command or command string.
• Defining the Data Adapter.
• Creating and filling the DataSet.

A Demonstration Application

• The Interface.
• Loading the table.
• Filling the controls on the Form.
• Navigating through the records.

Updating Data

• Steps for updating the table.
• Building the Application.
• Loading the table and displaying data in the form's controls.
• Initialising Commands.
• Adding Parameters to the commands.
• The ToggleControls() method of our application.
• Editing (or Updating) Records.
• Event Handler for the Save Button.
• Event Handler for the Cancel Button.
• Inserting Records.
• Deleting a Record.

Using Stored Procedures

• Sample Stored Procedures.
• UPDATE Stored Procedure.
• INSERT Stored Procedure.
• DELETE Stored Procedure.
• SELECT Stored Procedure.
• Using Stored Procedures with ADO.Net.