Application Development Using Visual Basic and .NET By Robert J. Oberg, Peter Thorsteinson, Dana L. Wyatt
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Chapter 13. Programming with ADO.NET
ADO.NET provides classes that enable you to design and build a distributed data architecture. You can access databases in a connected or disconnected mode depending on your concurrency requirements. The DataSet enables you to work with data in a relational manner without being connected to any data source. XML can be used to model relational data inside an XML document that contains nonrelational information. A typed DataSet gives you the ability to work in a much easier, type-safe fashion with a DataSet , provided you have an XML Schema that defines your data.