Sams Teach Yourself .Net in 21 Days

By Jason Beres

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Editor
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You
  • Introduction
  • Week 1: At a Glance
  • Day 1. Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Day 2. Introduction to Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 3. Writing Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 4. Deploying Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 5. Writing ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 6. Deploying ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 7. Exceptions, Debugging, and Tracing
  • Week 1. In Review
  • Week 2: At a Glance
  • Day 8. Core Language Concepts in Visual Basic .NET and C#
  • Day 9. Using Namespaces in .NET
  • Day 10. Accessing Data with ADO.NET
  • Day 11. Understanding Visual Database Tools
  • Day 12. Accessing XML in .NET
    • What Is XML?
    • XML in .NET
    • Using the XML and Schema Designers
    • Reading and Writing XML Files
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Quiz
    • Exercises
  • Day 13. XML Web Services in .NET
  • Day 14. Components and .NET
  • Week 2. In Review
  • Week 3: At a Glance
  • Day 15. Writing International Applications
  • Day 16. Using Macros in Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 17. Automating Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 18. Using Crystal Reports
  • Day 19. Understanding Microsoft Application Center Test
  • Day 20. Using Visual SourceSafe
  • Day 21. Object Role Modeling with Visio
  • Week 3. In Review

Quiz

1. True or False: XML files are better than flat text files because they can be transmitted easily over the Internet.

   False. XML files are better at defining hierarchical data, and they are self-describing with XML schemas. Both text files and XML files can be transmitted over the Internet.

2. All XML-specific classes are found in the ___________ namespace.

   System.Xml

3. Name the three main classes for reading forward-only XML data.

   XmlTextReader, XmlValidatingReader, XmlNodeReader

4. Using the __________ Transact SQL clause, you can easily create attribute-based XML files from SQL Server.

   FOR XML AUTO

5. Using the __________ method of the XmlTextReader class, you can get the attribute data value of a node.

   GetAttribute

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