I've been doing some VERY BASIC reading of ADO.NET 2.0, but I've not been able to find an answer to this question: (which leads me to believe it's assumed to be a general knowledge understanding that ...

Leverage ADO.Net's ability to work in disconnected mode to enable your application to stay disconnected to the database, conserve the system resources, and reduce the network traffic Microsoft’s ...

A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...