Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

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I'd like to pass to a method an object, and a REFERENCE (handle?) to one of its properties, so it can refer to the value and operate on it. (For specific reasons, I CANNOT pass the actual value; it ...

Let's say you have a simple class like the one from the MSDN article "Windows Forms Data Binding and Objects": You add some code for loading up your Customer object from a SQL database. Let's say your ...