One thing Visual Basic has always been good at is interacting with databases. VB.NET continues this great tradition. In fact this tutorial and source sample shows how you can create a SQL database, create a Table, create a Stored Procedure to populate the Table, , Create a View, and Execute the Stored Procedure to insert sample data. Lastly we will see how we can query the data using the View we created and store this into a DataSet and then display it in a DataGridView.
Before we start I recommend you download the source code sample and follow along: