Programming Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics

Dive in for reference where you need it--and learn the intricacies of developing sleeker, more robust, security-enhanced applications in ADO.NET 2.0. Featuring code samples in Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic, this reference goes beyond the fundamentals to help professional developers solve sophisticated enterprise development problems.
Discover how to: Examine advanced connectivity options and best practices--including connection pooling, clustered connections, and asynchronous accessUse tracing to diagnose application flow and performance issues Resolve concurrency conflicts and implement a data access layer Implement seamless application failover from one Microsoft SQL Server database to anotherUse managed code and the SQLCLR to create stored procedures, user-defined functions and types, aggregates, and triggers Write effective data-caching code to improve application performanceUse the Systems.Transactions namespace to work with Microsoft SQL Server 2005Implement streaming techniques to "chunk" dataApply various methods to extract and modify XML data
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