Provides information and links to new data features for client and data tier applications.

Discusses the fundamental concepts that you should understand about working with data in Visual Studio.

Provides step by step instructions for creating an application that displays data from a database.

Describes the two strategies for working with the ADO.NET data-access model, and discusses the strengths of each.

Discusses five advantages that ADO.NET has over previous versions of ADO and over other data access components.

Describes the features of ADO.NET by comparing them to ADO features.

Describes the concept of data sources in Visual Studio.

Describes the features in Visual Studio for working with SQL Server Express and Access databases.

Describes the features in Visual Studio for binding data to objects.

Links to pages about particular scenarios related to data access.

Provides information and links for installing sample databases used in the help topics and walkthroughs.

Explains the process of removing items from the Data Sources wiindow.

Provides step by step instructions for creating a SQL Server Express database.

Lists common issues that arise when working with data in Visual Studio.

Describes how to create connections to databases, Web services, and objects from your application.

Explains what typed datasets are and how to create and edit the individual objects that make up typed datasets.

Describes how you bring data into your application by executing SQL statements or stored procedures against a data source.

Describes how to display data on Windows Forms.

Discusses how to manipulate data before sending it back to the data source or to another process or application.

Provides links to topics describing how to add validation to datasets.

Discusses the issues that need to be taken care of when working with disconnected stores of records residing in memory.

Describes the ADO.NET classes, which expose data-access services to the .NET programmer.

Provides links to information on working with data on ASP.NET Web pages.

Describes how to manage data for devices in Visual Studio.

Contains links to topics that explain how data works in Office solutions, including information about schema-oriented programming, data caching, and server-side data access.