The information in this article covers the new data access objects including the DataSet and DataAdapter classes in ADO.NET.

An informational comparison between ASP.NET and ASP which highlights the advantages and differences between the two. Article by Joe O'Donnell.

A brief overview of ADO.NET with a description of the technical terms associated with the data access technology.

A tutorial that gives an overview of what ADO.NET is and how to use it with ASP.NET programming.

Overview of the seven main objects in the ADO.NET data-access architecture. By Michael Otey, SQL Server Magazine.

An article by Bob Beauchemin that explains how to write your own data provider using .NET's data access interfaces and base classes

This article examines the common causes behind data concurrency exceptions and presents techniques for overcoming them using ADO.NET

Best practices for writing Microsoft ADO.NET code and suggestions for developers on using the objects available in ADO.NET.

Shows how to use Application Blocks for .NET

This article outlines five ideas to consider when building a data access layer with Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework.

This article shows how Windows Forms use Microsoft ADO.NET to allow you to easily bind a form to almost any structure that contains data, and then bind controls on the form to specific elements of the data through both simple and complex data binding.

Shows how to use expressions in columns. In other words, how to make a column with a result that is dependent on other columns.

Learn how to best expose your data to Microsoft .NET applications and how to implement an effective strategy for passing data between the tiers in a distributed application.

A brief introduction to ADO.NET that explains what objects are necessary for data access.

Presents the design motivations behind ADO+ and a introduction to the various classes in the two layers that comprise the ADO+ framework. By Omri Gazitt, MSDN Magazine.

A descriptive introduction to ADO.NET

Discusses a strategy for returning newly created Identity values after the INSERT is executed. This applies to SQL Server and ADO.NET

An article that shows how to get multiple results from a database to DataSets and DataReaders

An article that shows how to use ADO.NET's different providers and transparently use it in your application without having to know the specifics of each provider.

MSDN Online Voices Diving Into Data Access column on reading data readers secrets.

This article describes how to run local and distributed transactions in your Microsoft .NET applications.

Discusses using ADO.NET Connection object, other ADO.NET objects, and provides examples. A 41-page article by Paul D. Sheriff of PDSA, Inc.

Billy Hollis explains the benefits of stored procedures for complex systems and takes stored procedures beyond the level of demoware and provides some hands-on examples of how you can access stored procedures and start using them in your own applications.

An article that shows how to use Oracle with ADO.NET

Examines the drawbacks of the ADO.NET CommandBuilder, and shows how to use the Visual Studio .NET DataAdapter Configuration Wizard (DACW) to write your own Command queries.

Shows how to use Stored Procedures, which is usually a feature of high-end databases, in Microsoft Access.