Assuming only basic knowledge of C# 2008, Beginning C# 2008 Databases teaches all the fundamentals of database technology and database programming readers need to quickly become highly proficient database users and application developers.

A comprehensive tutorial on both SQL Server 2005 and ADO.NET 3.0, Beginning C# 2008 Databases explains and demonstrates how to create database objects and program against them in both T-SQL and C#. Full of practical, detailed examples, it’s been fully revised and updated for C# 2008 and offers the most complete, detailed, and gentle introduction to database technology for all C# programmers at any level of experience.

* Comprehensively and concisely explains fundamental database concepts and programming techniques
* Rich in working examples of both T-SQL and C# programs
* Covers all the features most database programming ever requires

What you’ll learn

* How relational databases work and how to use them
* How C# uses ADO.NET to access databases
* How to write stored procedures in T-SQL and call them from C# programs
* How to use XML in database applications
* How to use LINQ to simplify C# database programming
* How to install SQL Server 2005 Express and Visual C# 3.0
* Express and use them to teach yourself database programming by doing it

Who is this book for?

Beginning C# 2008 Databases is for every C# programmer. Database programming requires relatively little knowledge of C# but a lot of knowledge about relational database concepts and the database language SQL. This book assumes no prior database experience and teaches you, always through hands-on examples, how to create and use relational databases with SQL and how to access them with C#. Almost every application needs to access a database, and this book teaches all the fundamentals you need--and may ever need--to develop professional database applications.