Hi news.demon.co.uk,
As MarkB said, you can read the the ADO.NET documentation.
He could have given the links too. But any way here are those links
INFO: Roadmap for ADO.NET
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http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;313590
INFO: Roadmap for ADO.NET DataSet, DataView, and DataViewManager Objects
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http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;313485
INFO: Roadmap for ADO.NET DataAdapter Objects
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http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;313483
INFO: Roadmap for Visual Database Tools and Typed DataSets
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http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;313486
INFO: Roadmap for .NET Data Providers
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http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;313480
INFO: Roadmap for ADO.NET DataSet Objects and XML Web Services
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http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;313648
Roadmap for Windows Forms data binding
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http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;313482
INFO: Roadmap for Web Forms Data Binding
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http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;313481
I have given majority of the links, you can also explore rest of the links
One more thing, Since ADO.NET 2.0 has already come, I feel you straight away
learn that.
Learning About ADO.NET 2.0
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/dataa...y/default.aspx
Bye
Venkat_KL