It almost sounds like it could be a Harry Potter book!
The first "wizard" is really just one of the many tools available in Visual Studio, but one that is key to working with databases: Server Explorer.
The book takes you directly into the specific task of establishing a data connection to the sample Access database and doesn't even mention the many other options available in Server Explorer!
That's like taking a kid into a toy store exclusively for the toy trains and trying to ignore everything else in the store!
If you're like me, you have to look around a bit. Although Server Explorer is just one of the windows available under the View menu, it consolidates tools and wizards that used to be scattered across a dozen tools, or not available at all, into one place. So it's worth taking a second look.
Server Explorer (see the illustration on the previous page) is a "consolidation" tool in Visual Studio .NET. That means that it groups a lot of functions that are available in Windows and various other software tools into one place. This is a major new feature of Visual Studio .NET that many programmers just haven't learned about but that has value that goes well beyond just writing Visual Basic code. For example, compare the "Services" view you get in Server Explorer versus the one that is available in Windows XP Control Panel Administrative Tools.
