Accessing Data with ASP.NET

ASP.NET includes features that enable you to add data access to your ASP.NET Web pages with little or no code. You can connect to databases, XML data and files, and business objects as data sources. You can then display data by using a variety of controls that provide great flexibility in how you present data on the page. We suggest the following progression of documentation to help you navigate through the related topics.

Getting started

Using Dynamic Data

Using LINQ

Securing Data

Binding to data

See Also

Other Resources

Programming Visual Basic 2008: Build .NET 3.5 Applications with Microsoft's RAD Tool for Business

Learning ASP.NET 3.5, Second Edition: Build Web Applications with ASP.NET 3.5, AJAX, LINQ, and More

Programming ASP.NET 3.5, Fourth Edition

ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook, Second Edition

Programming Entity Framework: Building Data Centric Apps with the ADO.NET Entity Framework