One of the most popular programming languages today, Visual Basic .NET is designed to be the easiest and most productive tool for creating .NET applications.

    This book will show you how to harness the power
of VB.NET in order to write your own practical database programs that can be used throughout the enterprise.
With the help of examples and instructions, you'll discover
how to dramatically improve the performance and scalability
of your existing databases.

    You'll also learn how to efficiently access and manipulate data from their applications. And you'll find out how to utilize queries, views, store procedures, and much more.

    This book is for developers who want to bring their
current databases and applications up to speed with the newest .NET framework. Some experience developing Windows and ASP.Net applications with Visual Basic.Net
is helpful, but not essential.

Chapter 1 Databases
Chapter 2 An introduction to ADO.NET
Chapter 3 Visual studio : .NET data wizards
Chapter 4 Basic SQL
Chapter 5 SQL and queries for Access
Chapter 6 Selecting data in Acess
Chapter 7 Inserting, updating, and deleting data in Access
Chapter 8 Migrating data from Access
Chapter 9 Stored procedures and views for SQL Server
and Oracle
Chapter10 Building business logic and data access components
Chapter 11 Inserting data
Chapter 12 Selecting data
Chapter 13 Updating data
Chapter 14 Accessing data in ASP.NET
Chapter 15 Creating a Web service
Chapter 16 Accessing a Web service

etc.