The document discusses three different ways to perform CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations on a database using ADO.NET in Visual Basic.NET. It includes code examples showing how to connect to a SQL Server database, retrieve data from a table into a DataSet, display the data in a DataGridView, and search or filter the data. The examples demonstrate using DataAdapters, DataSets, DataViews and SqlDataReaders to connect to the database and perform queries to retrieve and manipulate the data.