Beginning C# 5.0 Databases, 2nd Edition

Assuming only basic knowledge of C#, Beginning C# 5.0 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 2012 and Visual Studio 2012, Beginning C# 5.0 Databases explains and demonstrates various techniques and ways to build a database application using T–SQL and C#. Full of practical, detailed examples, it’s been fully revised and updated for Winforms using C# 5.0 and Visual Studio 2012 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 database programming techniques
• Rich in step-by-step working examples of both T–SQL and C# programs
• Covers all the features ADO.NET most database programming ever requires

What you’ll learn

• How relational databases work and how to use them
• How to create database and table objects using SQL Server 2012
• How to write SQL queries to modify data in SQL Tables
• How to write SQL queries to retrieve data using various querying techniques, including JOINS
• How to write stored procedures in T–SQL and call them from C# 5.0 programs
• How C# 5.0 uses various techniques to access databases
• How to build Windows form based applications
• How to handle runtime anomalies i.e. Exceptions
• How to program with each individual object of ADO .NET
• How to use XML in database applications
• How to use LINQ to simplify C# database programming
• How to use ADO .NET Entity Framework
• How to use SQL CLR to create stored procedures using C#

Who this book is for

Beginning C# 5.0 Databases is for every C# programmer. Database programming requires relatively little knowledge of C# but a lot of knowledge about relational database concepts, database language SQL and ADO.NET. This book assumes no prior database experience and teaches you, always through hands–on examples, how to create and use relational databases with SQL Server 2012 and how to access them with C# 5.0 using ADO.NET. Almost every application needs to access a database, and this book teaches all the fundamentals you need and may ever need to develop professional database applications.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Getting and Understanding Your Tools
Chapter 2. Understanding Relational Databases
Chapter 3. Creating Database and Tables
Chapter 4. Manipulating Database Data
Chapter 5. Querying Database
Chapter 6. Using Stored Procedures
Chapter 7. Using XML
Chapter 8. Understanding Transactions
Chapter 9. Building Windows Form Applications
Chapter 10. Introduction to ADO .NET
Chapter 11. Handling Exceptions
Chapter 12. Making Connections
Chapter 13. Executing ADO.NET Commands to Retrieve Data
Chapter 14. Using Data Readers
Chapter 15. Using Data Sets and Data Adapters
Chapter 16. Using Data Controls with ASP.NET Applications
Chapter 17. Working with Text and Binary Data
Chapter 18. Using LINQ
Chapter 19. Using ADO.NET Entity Framework
Chapter 20. Using the CLR in SQL Server