Summary

In this chapter, you learned about exception handling. You saw how exception handling works in .NET, and you learned how to handle exceptions in ADO.NET.

ODBC .Net data provider classes work with ODBC data sources. The good thing about ODBC connectivity is that an application can connect to multiple data sources as long as it has an ODBC driver for the data source. In next chapter, you'll learn about the ODBC .Net data provider, and you'll learn how to write applications that access various data sources.