Chapter 5. Data, Generics, and Making Sense of Information
.NET provides the developer with a rich library of code which enables us to process and manipulate data with or without a database. We also have generic types and database style manipulators using LINQ. In short, .NET gives the developer all the tools required for complex and speedy data manipulation.
In this chapter, we shall be covering the following topics:
Using generics to speed up development
Using LINQ to make queries simpler to use and extract the correct information
Writing the database helper class
Using reflection within the SQL helper class and elsewhere
