Why ADO.

NET
Not your fathers Data Access

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Who I am
Shawn Wildermuth swildermuth@adoguy.com Author of Pragmatic ADO.NET Editor of http://OnDotNet.com For More Info: http://adoguy.com This Presentation can be found at:

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Short History of Data Access

VT Objects Data Access Objects (DAO/Jet) Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) OLE for Databases (OLE/DB) ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)

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Why is ADO.NET Better?

Disconnected by Design Relational by Nature Integration with XML Framework Supports Real Database Schema

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Connected vs. Disconnected

The Pizza Delivery Guy Connections are expensive Keeping connections alive longer than necessary is extremely wasteful Long lived connections impede load balancing Connections unnecessary while manipulating database results

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Introducing ADO.NET
Managed Providers DataSet DataBinding in ASP.NET DataBinding in WinForms

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Managed Providers
ADO.NETs Version of Providers (ADO, OLE/DB) and Drivers (ODBC) Not the only way to access data in .NET (most notably the Xml classes) Made up of a number of managed classes that implement known interfaces

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System.Data Namespace
Dataset DataTable DataRow DataColumn etc. Data Relation ForeignKeyConstraint

System.Data.Common Namespace
DataAdapter DataTableMapping etc. DbDataRecord

System.Data.SqlClient Namespace SqlConnection SqlCommand SqlDataReader etc.

System.Data.OleDb Namespace OleDbConnection OleDbCommand OleDbDataReader etc. http://adoguy.com

Your Provider

YourConnection YourCommand YourDataReader etc.

Managed Provider Abstraction

System.Data.SqlClient
SqlConnection

System.Data

SqlDataAdapter

DataSet

SqlCommand

SqlDataReader

SqlParameters

SqlParameter

SqlErrors

SqlError

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using System; using System.Data; using System.Data.OleDb;

class HelloADONET { static void Main() { OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection("..."); conn.Open();

OleDbCommand cmd = conn.CreateCommand(); cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM AUTHORS";

OleDbDataReader rdr = cmd.ExecuteReader(); while (rdr.Read()) Console.WriteLine(rdr["au_id"]); conn.Close(); } }
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What are DataSets?

Disconnected set of Database Data? In-Memory Database (IMDB)? A complex, relational data structure with built-in support for XML serialization? All three?

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The DataSet
DataSet

Tables
DataTable Rows DataRow DataTable Rows DataRow

DataRelation Constraint ForeignKeyConstraint

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using System; using System.Data; using System.Data.SqlClient;

class HelloADONET { static void Main() { SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection("..."); SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(); da.SelectCommand = conn.CreateCommand(); da.SelectCommand.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM AUTHORS"; DataSet dataSet = new DataSet(); da.Fill(dataSet); } }

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Typed DataSets
Strong Typing XSD Based Schema Simple to Setup relationships, constraints, etc. Not very much use if you have amorphous data

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Type DataSet Demo

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Using DataSets
Bulk Data Loading is supported Two possible versions of all data, RowState.Original and RowState.Modified Relationship Navigation DataViews

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The Hard Part

Disconnected Concurrency
Optimistic Concurrency Supported by CommandBuilders Optimistic Concurrency could be more efficient Pessimistic Concurrency can be achieved with Check-out, Check-in

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XML Integration

DataSets XML Serialization

You can control the Serialization Full XSD Support Supports DiffGrams

XmlDataDocument
View DataSets as XmlDocuments

SqlCommands and XmlReader

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Practical Applications of DataSets

Stop Writing Business Objects!

Derive from Typed DataSets Let ADO.NET do the Database work Write Just Your Business Logic Deal with data as Relationally or Hierarchically by using XmlDataDocument

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Scalability in ADO.NET
Scale Out the Database as DataSets in the Middle Tier Use DiffGrams to Keep DataSets in Sync With SQL Server 2K

Can use DiffGrams to update the database Caveats about different DiffGram format

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DataBinding in ASP.NET

ASP.NET DataBinding is read-only

Can bind with DataReaders (but troublesome)

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DataBinding in ASP.NET (2)

using System.Data; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
protected ListBox ListBox1; DataSet dataSet = new DataSet(); // ... // DataBind ListBox1.DataSource = dataSet; ListBox1.DataMember = "Customers"; ListBox1.DataTextField = "CompanyName"; ListBox1.DataValueField = "CustomerID"; ListBox1.DataBind();

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DataBinding in WinForms

Different from ASP.NET

Fully bidirectional No need to call DataBind() Allows binding to any property

using System.Data; using System.Windows.Forms; DataSet dataSet = new DataSet(); // ... listBox1.DataSource = dataSet.Tables[0]; listBox1.DisplayMember = "CompanyName"; listBox1.ValueMember = "CustomerID";
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DataBinding in WinForms (2)

Master-Detail Binding
Set multiple object to same DataSource Set DataMember to name of Relationship Use CurrencyManager to move the cursor if you do not want to use the master control

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Quick Rants
Classic ADO has a role in .NET Batch Queries are cool! Caveats for SqlClients Connection Pooling Trust your DBAs and strive to be like them :)

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Questions?

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