A full day seminar presented by Shawn Wildermuth. This workshop is being coordinated by Dr. Marc Haines, Assistant Professor of Management Information systems at the School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Overview

ADO.NET is Microsofts new paradigm for supplying universal data access. ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) enables your client applications to access and manipulate data from a database server through an OLE DB provider. ADO supports key features for building client/server and Web-based applications. Youve probably heard, "In the .NET world, if you need data access, just use ADO.NET". Is.ADO.NET just a maturation of ADO? Hardly. ADO.NET is a completely different paradigm in data access and manipulation. Understanding then to use this new disconnected model or the higher performing connected model is the challenge of ADO.NET. Whether you are new to database development or are an old ADO user, you will need to understand why ADO.NET was written.

Topics

The topics to be presented include: • Why ADO.NET • Connecting to databases through ADO.NET • Using Command objects • Using the DataReader • Constructing DataSets • Using DataSets • Using Typed DataSets • Building Business Objects with ADO.NET • XML Integration • Data binding • Optimizing performance and scalability

About the speaker

Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft .NET MVP, an INETA speaker, a speaker at several national conferences, the editor of ONDotnet.com, the author of "Pragmatic ADO.NET" for Addison-Wesley and an author of numerous articles for a variety of magazines. He is also the founder of ADOGuy.com and has been building data-driven software for more than eighteen years. Shawn has spent most of those years developing database applications in the varied fields of accounting, real estate, Internet, and medicine.

Who should Attend?

Users of .NET who need to understand how to access databases.

Coordinator

This technology workshop is being coordinated by Dr. Marc Haines, Associate Professor in the Management Information Systems area at the School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.