ADO.NET Overview

As more and more companies move toward XML as the standard for cross-platform communication, Microsoft is making an active effort to use this structure to power many of its new technologies.

One application of this is in ADO.NET — where literally all data is intrinsically stored in such a format.

And you can easily tap into this store by getting your information into a DataSet — then accessing the.ReadXml, .WriteXml and .GetXml functions.

In addition, you can parse XML programmatically using the System.Xml.XmlDocument object.