This lesson is an introduction to ADO.NET. It introduces primary ADO.NET concepts and objects that you will learn about in later lessons. More info

A brief explanation of where data ends up in .NET. More info

In this second part of the series, you will learn about reference types, especially arrays and strings. You will also learn how reference types work internally. You will be introduced to delegates and classes, too, as reference types, but they will be discussed in detail later. More info

ADO.NET 2.0 introduces Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS), a feature that enables you to execute multiple queries against the database using a single connection. Learn how to return multiple forward-only, read-only result sets using MARS. More info

Learn how Indigo will simplify the development of distributed applications. More info

Visual Studio .NET can help you produce robust applications with very few bugs fairly quickly. It includes a lot of features to help make a programmer's job easier. However, it has its own disconcerting quirks. This article will help you understand the basics and avoid the traps. More info

Think .NET code snippets are just about dragging and dropping some reusable code into the toolbox? Guess again. Code snippets in Visual Studio 2005 are far more useful. Find out why overlooking them would be a mistake. More info

This article looks at various mechanisms that can be used to reverse engineer .NET applications and libraries for the purpose of learning the platform better. More info

One of the great new features within .NET are the little known CodeDOM classes. Although, not something that you're going to use in your day-to-day winforms development, the CodeDOM is something that I wanted to bring to peoples attention. It is certainly a very useful skill when it comes to developing addins or other software that requires language independant code generartion or on the fly assemblies compilation. More info

There are countless situations when you would like to save the data for later retrieval, but don't need the overhead or complexity of access to a full database. There are many ways to do this, but several of them are subject to a lot of extra code (work) and extra time spent debugging. With .NET, there is now an easy way to add this functionality to your code with only a few lines of easily tested code. More info