This book explains how to use Visual Basic 2005 to write efficient database applications that can be used throughout the company. With a teaching tool, you will learn how to use queries, views, and stored procedures to efficiently access and manipulate data from your application. What you will learn from this book How ADO.NET continues to evolve as a building block for accessing and manipulating data in relational database How to encrypt and decrypt data, password hash, and safer for your data access techniques to access the Web Service from both Windows (r) and Web applications Best practices for using business logic and data access components to produce report data or update data in your database back end Who this book is to This book is for developers who want to learn to write database applications and back-end databases, such as Microsoft (r) Access, Microsoft (r) SQL Server, and Oracle (r).