XML Integration in ADO.NET

The objective of this session is to introduce developers to leveraging the XML features and support in ADO.NET.

These are some of the key topics that will be covered in this presentation:
Accessing the output of executing ADO.NET commands as XML streams
Persisting ADO.NET datasets as XML
Using XML data to populate ADO.NET datasets
Using the Microsoft .NET Framework XmlDataDocument class to
manipulate the data in an ADO.NET dataset using XML
DOM properties and methods
Synchronizing an XmlDataDocument object with an ADO.NET dataset
Practical applications of XML features implemented in ADO.NET
The code samples presented in the slides of this presentation will be written using Microsoft Visual Basic .NET.

Presentation to be given by:
Karthik Ravindran: Karthik has been with Microsoft for more than two years. He is a Developer Support Professional in the XML Web Database team, and is the PSS MSXML Beta Product Lead. He holds a master's degree in Information Technology, and the MCSD & MCP+SB (Site Builder) certifications.
Karthikeyan Ponnusamy: Karthi has been with Microsoft for two years. He is a Developer Support Professional in the XML Web database team, and is currently the PSS Web Database Content Lead. He holds a master's degree in Engineering, and MCSD certification.