8.False

9.AutoGenerateColumns

10.B

11.D

12.True. You should close all objects when you are done using them. Doing so releases valuable server resources.

13.B. Update.

14.True. The DataAdapter objects provide methods to manage data updates, deletes, or inserts.

15.PageSize

16.False

17.A

18.True

19.False. There is no set limit to the number of tables a DataSet object can contain.

20.False. A DataSet is an ideal object to implement data shaping.

21.True VB.NET now impements the Try...Catch...Finally construct for error handling.

22.A

23.A

24.C

Sunday Afternoon Review Answers

1.False. SOAP is the proposed Internet standard that is currently being evaluted by the World Wide Web Consortium.

2.True. Since SOAP utilizes HTTP as its transport mechanism, and assuming the firewall supports HTTP requests, SOAP traffic can be handled just as easily as simple Web requests.

3.Rogue Wave’s Nouveau ORB, Iona’s Orbix 2000, ObjectSpace’s Voyager, Userland’s Frontier Groupware Product, Microsoft’s Windows DNA

4.D

5.False. Microsoft’s Web Services are based on HTTP and XML.

6.C

7.<WebMethod()>

8.Web Service Description Language or WSDL

9.False When authoring an ASP.NET page, you must use only one language.

10.False All ASP.NET pages are translated into the same Intermediate Langauge that is then compiled at run-time. So, there is no performance benefit to using one language over another.

11.True

12.False

13.True

14.False

15.True. You can either turn ASP Compatibility on, or implement a Runtime Callable Wrapper with the type library importer utility (TlbImp.exe).

16.True