A best practice when generating DataSet objects is to minimize the number of records returned by SqlDataAdapter objects. This works for VS.NET applications whose users have direct network connections ...

In a service-oriented application based on the application/domain architectural model, lightweight business objects are responsible for encapsulating their data to trigger proper field-level ...

Leverage ADO.Net's ability to work in disconnected mode to enable your application to stay disconnected to the database, conserve the system resources, and reduce the network traffic Microsoft’s ...

I'm in my ongoing ever slow transition to .NET. I'm trying to do something that I would easily do in ADO, but I can't seem to do in .NET? I'm passing a reference to an open SQLConnection into a sub ...

I'm having some difficulty with updating a DataSet bound to controls on a Windows Form. Microsoft's tutorials cover only the bare essentials, and never show how to use anything other than DataGrids on ...