Accessing Data in ASP.NET

This chapter focuses on the database programming with Visual Basic.NET using the Web‐based applications. Active Server Page (ASP).NET allows users to write software to access databases through a Web browser rather than a separate program installed on computers. The .NET Framework is a model that provides a foundation to develop and execute different applications at an integrated environment such as Visual Studio.NET. ASP.NET is a programming framework built on the .NET Framework, and it is used to build Web applications. The chapter discusses how to insert a new faculty record into the Oracle database from the Web page. It utilizes the Language‐Integrated Query (LINQ) to Oracle and Entity Data Model provided by the Devart as a tool to provide a fundamental end‐to‐end LINQ to Oracle scenario for selecting, adding, modifying, and deleting data against our sample database via Web pages. The standard LINQ to Oracle queries include, select, insert, update, and delete.