This article demonstrates how to persist an ADO.NET DataSet object to Extensible Markup Language (XML). Requirements The following list outlines the recommended hardware, software, network infrastructure, and service packs that are required: A...

The Stream object introduced in ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) 2.5 can be used to greatly simplify the code that needs to be written to access and modify Binary Large Object (BLOB) data in a SQL Server Database. The previous versions of ADO [ 2.0, 2.1, and...

The GetChunk and the AppendChunk methods are not available in ADO.NET to read and write binary large object (BLOB) fields. This article describes how to use the FileStream object and a byte array to read and to write BLOB data from Microsoft SQL Server...