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04.20.05
Connecting And Accessing Data Through ADO.NET
 By Pawan Bangar
Microsoft's ADO.NET technology offers a solution to many of the problems associated with data access.
Accessing data has become a major programming task for modern software programming, both for standardalone applications and for web based applications. Microsoft's ADO.NET technology offers a solution to many of the problems associated with data access.
ADO.NET is an improvement to Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). It is a standards-based programming model for creating distributed data-sharing applications. ADO.NET offers several advantages over previous versions of ADO and over other data access components. These benefits fall into the following categories:
Interoperability
Maintainability
Programmability
Performance.
Connecting to a database:
For performing and operation we need to connect to a database. This is done automatically through ADO connection, of which code is associated with VS.net Programming environment.
Connecting Database
sharp1.cs class xyz1 {
public static void main()
{
try
{
System.Data.ADO.ADOConnection s;
S=new System.Data.ADO.ADOConnection();
System.Console.Writeline("C-Sharp);
}
catch(System.Exception e)
{
System.console.Writeline(e.ToString());
}}}
Above program can be compiled through command line at DOS promot giving command line option as /r:System.Data.Dll
Because the code for ADO.Connection is available at this DLL. The above program consists of an object s resembling as System.ado.adoconnection .
Thus we are creating the object s by the statement:
System.Data.ADO.ADOConnection s;
From the output it is clear that the constructor has thrown no exception, as otherwise catch block would have been executed.
About the Author:
Presently working in the capacity of the Technical Director of Birbals, an e-consulting firm based in India dedicated in providing innovative and effective web, Hospitality and consultancy services to public, private and non-profit organizations. Successfully founded Birbals and other IT companies like Ebirbals and SeoBirbals. |
Microsoft Great Plains ECommerce: Overview For Developer
 By Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains was designed back in the early 1990s as the first graphical ERP/accounting system for mid-size businesses.
The architects of Great Plains Dexterity - this is the internal mid-shell, all Great Plains was written on, designed it to be easily transferable between graphical operating systems (MAC, Windows, Solaris - potentially) and database platforms - initially Great Plains was available on Ctree (both Mac and PC) and Btrieve, a bit later high end version Dynamics C/S+ was available on Microsoft SQL Server 6.5. But the idea was to catch or switch winning/losing database platform - nobody could predict if MS SQL Server, Oracle or DB 2 become a dominant DB platform, like Windows among OS. All these trade-ins for being potentially cross-platform application make the life of nowadays eCommerce developer difficult.
eCommerce developers were using Microsoft IIS and ASP-based Great Plains eCommerce around 4 years ago. Today, with the move to .Net and ASPX platform, server based scripts are replaced with .Net code behind approach and Great Plains eCommerce should be rewritten.
Microsoft Great Plains subdivision released SDK - eConnect which was targeted to eCommerce developers to manipulate Great Plains objects, such as Customer, SOP Order, Invoice, Quote, etc. What is a bit unpleasant - eConnect requires license key and is quite expensive for small internet eCommerce sites.
Custom Stored Procedures. Companies, like Alba Spectrum Technologies have implemented multiple diversified eCommerce projects with Great Plains at the back end. So, these custom stored procedures are available on the market, but they are not packaged as eConnect and could be purchased on the individual agreement base with Microsoft Great Plains partner.
Some Great Plains tables structure logic is required. You usually need consultant help, however you could try to make maximum work done. Tool->Resource Desciption->Tables, re-sort by Table Group technical name, then make test transactions in Great Plains (SOP module) and see where records go. This is how you design and test your queries.
About the Author:
Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies – USA nationwide Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Great Plains customization company, based in Chicago, California, Texas, New York, Georgia and Florida and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www.albaspectrum.com), he is Dexterity, SQL, C#.Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. |
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