... 4 Microsoft ADO.NET Step by Step Note Although ADO.NET manipulates data in tabular form, you can also use ADO.NET to access nontabular data For instance, an ADO.NET provider (discussed ... desktop and Web-based systems Chapter 1 Introducing ADO.NET Why ADO.NET? In the early days of computer programming, the need for a data library like ADO.NET didn’t exist Programmers had only ... familiar terms in ADO.NET Tables, rows, columns, relations, views; these ADO.NET concepts are based loosely on their relational database counterparts Despite these similarities, ADO.NET is not a...