ASP.NET Programming By Ashvin Padhiyar

Adrotator control is available in ASP.Net to make the task of rotating the advertisement images in a web form quickly and easily. It also enables you to display different types of images whenever you refresh the page. Adrotator control takes the information about the images that are to be displayed from an XML file which also have many other elements in it that are used by this control. Adrotator control is available in ASP.Net to make the task of rotating the advertisement images in a web form quickly and easily. It also enables you to display different types of images whenever you refresh the page. Adrotator control takes the information about the images that are to be displayed from an XML file which also have many other elements in it that are used by this control. First let us have a look at a sample advertisement file that is used by the adrotator control in ASP.Net. Let us assume that the advertisement XML file is named as advt.xml. This file might look like, < A...

ExecuteReader : Use for accessing data. It provides a forward-only, read-only, connected recordset. ExecuteNonQuery : Use for data manipulation, such as Insert, Update, Delete. ExecuteScalar : Use for retriving 1 row 1 col. value., i.e. Single value. eg: for retriving aggregate function. It is faster than other ways of retriving a single value from DB.