Data and Data Access

Visual Basic applications can connect to a variety of data sources, including SQL Server, ODBC data sources, and a variety of OLEDB providers, through the new data access technology of ADO.NET. The information in this section covers the new data access objects including the DataSet and DataAdapter classes.

Videos How Do I: Create a WPF Lookup Combobox using Entity Framework? Saturday, Jul 11, 2009 by Beth Massi How Do I: Get Started with Entity Framework in WPF Applications? Tuesday, Jul 7, 2009 by Beth Massi Creating and Consuming ADO.NET Data Services Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 by Alessandro Del Sole Articles Consuming ADO.NET Data Services with WPF and Visual Basic 2008 Wednesday, Apr 15, 2009 by Alessandro del Sole Walkthrough: Creating a Simple Data Application Monday, Feb 16, 2009 Creating Visual Web Developer Data Applications Monday, Feb 16, 2009 Training Advanced Data Access with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Thursday, Feb 28, 2008 by Microsoft Learning

Webcasts Live From Redmond: VB9 - Introduction to LINQ in Visual Basic Saturday, Mar 15, 2008 by Beth Massi MSDN Webcast: Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts: Visual Basic and SQL Server 2005 (Level 200) Thursday, Jun 7, 2007 by Ron Cundiff Live From Redmond: VB9 – LINQ to SQL & O/R Designer Deep Dive Thursday, May 3, 2007 by Young Joo Blogs Loading Data and Binding Controls in WPF with CollectionViewSource Friday, Nov 7, 2008 by Beth Massi Editing Data from Two Tables in a Single DataGridView Wednesday, Oct 15, 2008 by Beth Massi Editing Tabular Data in WPF Using the Winforms DataGridView Thursday, Sep 4, 2008 by Beth Massi