visual basic file data base
1.0
This is a visual basic program to load a file data base.
You can use Visual Basic to JtTite projects that display and update the data from databases. Visual Basic uses ADO.NET, which is the next generation of
database technology. following Microsoft's previous version called ActiveX Data
Objects (ADO). One big advantage of ADO.NET is that information is stored
and transferred in Extensible Markup Language (XML). You will find more
information about XML in the section "XML Data" later in this chapter.
ADO.NET allows you to access database data in many formats. The basic
types of providers are OleDb. SQLClient for SQL Server (Microsoft's propri- etary DBMS). Odbc. and Oracle. Using OleDb you can obtain data from sources
such as Access, Oracle, Sybase. or DB2. The examples in this text use Micro- soft's SQL Server Express (SSE). which installs automatically with Visual Studio.