Advanced Data Retrieval with ADO.NET

ADO.NET, the classes found in the System.Data namespace in Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET), provides a wealth of functionality to developers who need to manipulate data, which, as it turns out, includes most all VS.NET developers. One of its interesting characteristics is that you can use ADO.NET and rely on its defaults to quickly and easily get an application up and running. However, there are certainly times you need to get under the covers to configure the various objects in the System.Data namespace to handle custom scenarios. Nowhere is this more obvious than in how you retrieve data using ADO.NET.

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