Accessing Data in Visual Studio

Discusses aspects of incorporating data access functionality into your applications.

Describes the tools available for creating Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and WCF Data Services applications in Visual Studio.

Describes the tools available for creating and maintaining Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases.

Describes data-tier applications and database features in Visual Studio.

Provides links to topics that describe what SQL Server projects are, how to create them, and how to add and create SQL Server database objects.

Discusses data access features that are new in Visual Studio.

Provides topics on how data binding works in Windows Forms and how to bind controls to a data source.

Describes the ADO.NET architecture and how to use the ADO.NET classes to manage application data and interact with data sources and XML.

Describes how to create data applications that allow developers to program against a conceptual model instead of directly against a relational database.

Describes how to use the Entity Data Model Tools, which are provided by the Entity Framework, to create applications.

Describes how to use WCF Data Services to deploy data services on the Web or an intranet that implement the Open Data Protocol (OData).

Provides an overview to a comprehensive and integrated set of classes that work with XML documents and data in the .NET Framework.

Provides topics on the issues associated with data binding in Web Forms pages and how to bind controls to a data source.

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

Provides links to procedural, conceptual, and step-by-step topics about component deployment.

Describes the query capabilities built into C# and Visual Basic, and the common model for querying relational databases, XML documents, datasets, and in-memory collections.

Discusses working with XML data, debugging XSLT, .NET Framework XML features, and architecture of XML Query.