Preface : Using This Book

Using This Book
This book assumes that you are familiar with your operating system and its commands, the definition of directories, and accessing a database through an end-user application.
This book contains the following information:
Chapter 1 “Quick Start” provides information about connecting to a database with your DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET data providers.
Chapter 2 “Using the Data Providers” provides general information about using .NET applications with the DataDirect Connect ADO.NET data providers and provides information about developing .NET applications in the .NET environment.
Chapter 3 “Advanced Features” describes advanced features of the data providers, including connection pooling, statement caching, security, and DataDirect Bulk Load.
Chapter 4 “Using the Data Providers in Visual Studio” describes how to use the ADO.NET data providers from within Visual Studio.
Appendix A “Bulk Load Configuration Files” provides samples of the files created during bulk load operations.
Appendix B “Connection String Option Descriptions” describes the connection string options for each data provider.
Appendix C “.NET Classes” provides the .NET public objects, properties, and methods supported by the ADO.NET data providers.
Appendix D “IANA Code Page Mappings” maps the most widely used IBM code pages to IANA code page names.
NOTE: This book refers the reader to Web pages using URLs for more information about specific topics, including Web pages not maintained by Progress DataDirect. Because it is the nature of Web content to change frequently, Progress DataDirect can guarantee only that the URLs referenced in this book were correct at the time of publishing.