Getting Your Tools -- Getting to Know Your Tools -- Getting to Know Relational Databases -- Writing Database Queries -- Manipulating Database Data -- Using Stored Procedures -- Using XML -- Understanding Transactions -- Getting to Know ADO.NET -- Making Connections -- Executing Commands -- Using Data Readers -- Using Datasets and Data Adapters -- Building Windows Forms Applications -- Building ASP.NET Applications -- Handling Exceptions -- Working with Events -- Working with Text and Binary Data -- Using LINQ -- Using ADO.NET 3.5.

Assuming only basic knowledge of C# 2008, Beginning C# 2008 Databases teaches all the fundamentals of database technology and database programming readers need to quickly become highly proficient database users and application developers. A comprehensive tutorial on both SQL Server 2005 and ADO.NET 3.0, Beginning C# 2008 Databases explains and demonstrates how to create database objects and program against them in both T–SQL and C#. Full of practical, detailed examples, it's been fully revised and updated for C# 2008 and offers the most complete, detailed, and gentle introduction to database technology for all C# programmers at any level of experience. Comprehensively and concisely explains fundamental database concepts and programming techniques Rich in working examples of both T–SQL and C# programs Covers all the features most database programming ever requires.