Accessing and manipulating data from a Microsoft SQL Server database by creating and using ad hoc queries and stored procedures
Knowing how to work with a dataset object
Knowing how to read and write XML data using the classes from the System.Xml namespace
Knowing how to handle database- related errors in your code
Practicing reading and writing file-based data with the FileStream, StreamReader , and StreamWriter objects
In this chapter, you learn how to access and manipulate data in relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, data in XML format, and the data stored in disk files.