Author Bill Hamilton, an early adopter of the technology, was commissioned to design and build a large distributed application when he encountered countless data access issues that didn't have ready or obvious solutions. This convinced him to gather every thorny ADO.NET problem he could find-out of his own experience and by working closely with other developers-to provide a complete troubleshooting toolkit for enterprise developers. ADO.NET Cookbook is the result: a collection of ready-to- use "recipes" or worked-out code solutions for common and uncommon programming problems