Product Description: Serialization is a fundamental process that creates a persistent and portable representation of an object. This representation can be stored to disk, or moved across a network so that the object can be recreated on another machine...read more

Product Description: ADO.NET is Microsoft's latest data access technology, and, as an integral component of the .NET framework, is far more than simply an upgrade of an existing technology. ADO.NET is a large set of .NET classes that enable us to interact with data sources, manipulate data, and communicate with other applications and Web Services in entirely new ways...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Demonstrates programming techniques within the .NET framework, discussing namespaces and controls, aspects of ASP.NET, Web services, and ADO.NET and XML usage with .NET, and provides examples relating to the concepts presented. (view table of contents)