This book is mainly designed for college students who take the database programming course in the Visual Studio.NET environment and want to learn both fundamental knowledge and practical techniques in designing and building of professional database program applied in real commercial and industrial applications in Visual C#.NET. The proposed book provides a detailed description about the practical considerations and applications in database programming with Visual C#.NET 2008 with authentic examples and detailed explanations. More important, a new writing style is developed and implemented in this book, combined with real examples, to provide readers with a clear picture as how to handle the database programming issues in Visual C#.NET 2008 environment.Unlike most other Visual C# database programming books in the current market, which discuss and present the database programming techniques with huge blocks of programming codes from the first page to the last page, this proposed book tries to use a new writing style to show readers, especially to the college students, how to develop professional and practical database programs in Visual C#.NET 2008 environment by using Visual Studio.NET 2008 Design Tools and Wizards related to ADO.NET 3.5, and to apply and manage codes that are auto-generated by using Wizards. By using this new style, the over headache caused by using those huge blocks of programming codes can be removed. Instead, a simple and easy way to create database programs using the wizards can be developed to attract students' learning interest, reducing the learning curve and furthermore to enable students to build professional and practical database programming in more efficient and interesting ways.

Dr. Ying Bai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU). Before joining JCSU, Dr. Bai worked as a senior software engineer in the field of automatic control and testing equipment in Silicon Valley, California, and Columbus, Ohio. He has a great deal of experience in robotics control, robot calibrations, and related software programming, as well as accurate measurements in industrial and academic fields. Dr. Bai is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM. In recent years, he has published six books in multi-language interface programming, serial port programming, electronics, fuzzy logic technology, and database programming with Visual Basic.NET.