Discusses aspects of incorporating data access functionality into your applications.

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

Describes how to access design-time information about databases via Server Explorer.

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

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

Provides both general information on transaction processing and specific information on how to process transactions in the Microsoft .NET Framework.

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

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

The System.Transactions namespace contains classes that allow you to write your own transactional application and resource manager.

Provides an interactive guide to help you choose which approach or technology to use, as well as links to more information.

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.

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

Provides information on debugging SQL Server stored procedures, functions, and triggers.

Lists the major namespaces for data and XML and provides links to .NET Framework reference topics about the types (classes, structures, enumerations, delegates, and interfaces) in the namespaces, as well as links to topics about using them in Visual Basic and Visual C# applications.

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.

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

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