Further Reading

In my book Building Web Solutions with ASP.NET and ADO.NET (Microsoft Press, 2002), I devoted Chapter 7 to disconnected applications and batch updates. In that chapter, I discuss save-and-resume applications from the Web perspective. A wider coverage of disconnected ADO.NET can be found in Francesco Balena’s Programming Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft Press, 2002) and David Sceppa’s Microsoft ADO.NET Core Reference (Microsoft Press, 2002). Both books will more than get you started, so deciding which works better for you is more of a matter of personal preference. If you want to focus on ADO.NET, go for Sceppa’s book; if you want to look at ADO.NET as a part of the larger .NET Framework, pick up Balena’s book.

Data binding is a key enhancement in the .NET Framework. Although based on a shared model such as ADO.NET, data binding is implemented in radically different ways in Windows Forms and Web Forms applications. Insights into Windows Forms data binding can be found in the following Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) articles: http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dndive/html/data06132002.asp and http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/02/cutting/cutting0202.asp.