newbie question about IDE / ADO.net integration

[Jack B]

Hi guys, I have made a console application that reads .mdb file. The way I
achieved it was using the IDE, it was pretty much automatically, just
dragging the mdb file into the idea, writing few sql strings in the wizard,
and it generate the adapter,dataset and etc. classes automatically.

2 questions:
1) How is this process/model called ? Is it XSD ? named Datasets ? I want to
know when asking questions regarding this, how to refer it in the future.
2) The connection string to the mdb file is in the setting, and I'd like to
pass it as a command line argument to my application, so it can work with
dynamically supplied mdb files.


Thanks in advance

 

[BobF]

data access

 

[Jack B]

I was under impression that it's called typed datasets. Could you please
answer second question

 

[BobF]

"Data access" is a more general topic for accessing databases.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186197.aspx