Data Resources

These topics provide additional links to information for working with applications that access data.

In This Section

• Data User Interface Elements
  Provides links to topics describing Visual Studio dialog boxes associated with data access.

• ADO.NET Data Adapters
  Provides topics about defining the SQL statement or stored procedure calls that you use to fill datasets and write data back to the database.

Reference

• System.Data
  Describes the ADO.NET classes, which expose data-access services to the .NET programmer.

• System.Transactions
  The System.Transactions namespace contains classes that allow you to write your own transactional application and resource manager.

Related Sections

• Getting Started with Data Access
  Provides links to topics on creating applications that work with data, using Visual Studio.

• Connecting to Data in Visual Studio
  Provides links to topics on connecting your application to data with design time tools, and ADO.NET connection objects, using Visual Studio.

• Preparing Your Application to Receive Data
  Provides links to topics explaining what datasets are, how to create new datasets, and how to create and edit the individual objects they are made of.

• Fetching Data into Your Application
  Provides links to topics describing how to load data into datasets, and how to execute SQL statements and stored procedures.

• Displaying Data on Forms in Windows Applications
  Provides links to topics that explain how to display data on Windows Forms through data-bound controls.

• Editing Data in Your Application
  Provides links to topics describing how to manipulate the data in the data tables of a dataset.

• Validating Data
  Provides links to topics describing how to add validation to a dataset during column and row changes.

• Saving Data
  Provides links to topics explaining how to send updated data from an application to the database.

• ADO.NET
  Describes the ADO.NET classes, which expose data-access services to the .NET programmer.

• Working with Data in Managed Device Projects
  Describes how to manage data for devices in Visual Studio.

• Data in Office Solutions
  Contains links to topics that explain how data works in Office solutions, including information about schema-oriented programming, data caching, and server-side data access.