Presented by:

Tim O’Brien
Senior Systems Engineer
Fujitsu Software Corporation

Advanced ADO.NET Programming

and Introduction to XML
Fujitsu Software Corporation

Customer Training Series

Fujitsu Computer Systems

Advanced ADO.NET Programming / Intro
to XML
■ Discussion of ADO.NET in more detail

■ Create a more complex ADO.NET COBOL application

■ Introduction to XML

■ XML in the .NET environment

■ Create a COBOL application using XML classes

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ADO.NET: Connection Object
■ Links the data requestor with the data provider

■ Used by other objects to perform operations on

the database

■ Information required to establish a connection is

provided in the ConnectionString

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ADO.NET: Connection Object (Cont…)

■ The Open method is used to create the

connection using the ConnectionString
information

■ Data operations may then be performed

■ The Close method is invoked to close the

connection

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ADO.NET: the DataReader Object

■ Provides read only, forward only, fast sequential

access

■ Lightweight

■ Ideal for web applications that do not update

data

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ADO.NET: the DataSet Object
■ Provides disconnected access

■ Data is cached in memory

■ More suitable for random access and update

operations

■ Supports serialization of XML – may be loaded

from XML or saved to XML (data or schema)

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ADO.NET: the DataSet Object (Cont…)

■ Typically contains DataTable objects, which

contain DataRows and DataColumns objects

■ May also contain Constraints and DataRelations

objects

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Demo

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Introduction to XML
■ Enables the creation of custom markup
languages based on elements and attributes

■ Cross platform standard

■ Highly useful for transporting data, as it may

contain the data and the data’s schema –
making it self defining data

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Introduction to XML (Cont…)
■ The XmlDocument object contains document
definitions

■ The XMLDataDocument object may contain

relational data in XML format

■ Becoming the standard language of the internet

in describing data and documents

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Introduction to XML (Cont…)
■ Supports use of style sheets that assist in the
definition of large complex documents

■ XML may be displayed within an HTML page

and HTML may be used within an XML
document

■ XML parsers parse XML and put it into an

organized more readable format

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Introduction to XML (Cont…)
■ Extensible Style Sheets (XSL) contain style
sheet information

■ XSLT (XSL transformations) translate XML

definitions into other XML definition formats or
into non-XML formats such as HTTP, for
example

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XML Code Sample

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<!DOCTYPE UserGroup>
<UserGroup last="3">
<User name="TA1" passwd="ta">
</User>
<User name="TA2" passwd="tb">
</User>
<User name="TA3" passwd="tc">
</User>
</UserGroup>

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XML in the .NET environment
■ Fully XML enabled

■ Provides XML classes for reading writing and

transforming XML

■ The XmlDocument object provides methods and

properties for dealing with XML documents

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XML in the .NET environment (Cont…)
■ The XMLDataDocument object extends
XmlDocument and may contain relational data in
XML format. May expose any loaded document
as an ADO DataSet object

■ Visual Studio .NET includes an XML editor

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Demo

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Questions

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