I posted this in MS OS but this might be a more appropriate forum: I have a couple of ASP.NET applications that back-end to a Jet 4.0 (read: Access 2000 mdb) database. These programs support functions ...

Last month we saw how easy it is to create your own set of Web Controls. But what about one of the most important things that most ASP programmers use ASP for: to connect to a database to insert, ...

A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...