Extend your expertise as you move beyond the basics -- and delve into the essential topics of programming with ADO.NET 4. This comprehensive reference offers expert guidance, hands-on instruction, and code samples in Microsoft Visual C#® and Visual Basic® to help advance your mastery of developing database applications for Windows® and the Web.Discover how to:Connect to databases directly from your application to retrieve and manipulate data Use ADO.NET 4 to retrieve server-generated values Interact with an application’s UI with data binding Model and interact with data using ADO.NET Entity Framework Query Microsoft SQL Server® databases with LINQ to SQL Manage datasets from a variety of databases with LINQ to DataSet Use ADO.NET as an offline data cache for your application